User talk:ChristopherGHart

Welcome to Wikipedia[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, ChristopherGHart, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Sierra Railroad Dinner Train and COI[edit]

Regarding your message on my talk page: There are a couple of policies you need to understand WP:COI, WP:Advert and WP:Corp. Your article was nominated for deletion as blatant spam. Feeling charitable, I declined to call it spam (although it certainly could have been considered such) and deleted it with the lesser issue of being a non-notable company. I urge you not to create articles about your businesses on wikipedia as you have an inherent conflict of interest. Any articles you create will be subject to scrutiny, especially with respect to WP:Advert and WP:Corp. Good luck. Toddst1 (talk) 15:08, 29 November 2009 (UTC) Thank you for the information Todd. I certainly appreciate the need to keep the site commercial free. It is hard though to sit by when I see inaccuracies or ommissions about my livelihood. For example I also made changes to another of our operations, the Sacramento RiverTrain that had innacuracies. While I certainly can put on my marketing hat, I also sit on the California State Marketing Commission and am accustom to writing in a straight, non-hype manner. Is there an appropriate way to do this? ChristopherGHart (talk) 04:34, 3 December 2009 (UTC)ChristopherHart[reply]