User talk:Josko wk

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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references at all
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: with the aim to increase efficiency and improve safety... enables international organizations to monitor drilling and provide analysis for the global oil and gas industry... develops solutions for all desktop, web and mobile platforms... many high profile customers... high performance... provides automation solutions... the company specializes in integrating and handling projects.
it's all about what the company does, little about the company itself other than locations. To show notability you need hard facts such as the number of employees, turnover or profits.
the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks or references, and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
While I do work in the marketing department of the company... You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.
As an employee of the company, you are a paid advocate. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Josko wk. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Josko wk|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}.

I've deleted your article talk page comments, that's purely technical since talk pages must have extant articles. I'll shortly delete your user page too, since you can't host articles there, and in any case the problems are the same as the original. Although you are strongly discouraged from writing about your company, it's not actually forbidden as long as you disclose your COI as above. Use a sandbox for a draft, but bear in mind that even there it's not immune from our policies if it seems overly promotional or has a copyright problem.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:37, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Invisible Lost Time for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Invisible Lost Time is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Invisible Lost Time until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Ploni (talk) 14:33, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]