User talk:Nicklyg01

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Elounda Solfez Villas, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:

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Your villas

I'm afraid it is very unlikely the villas can have an article. The problems are:

Wikipedia is absolutely not for advertising or promotion in any form, and is very resistant to any attempt to use it for that. One of our key content policies is WP:Neutral point of view. You say you did not mean to promote the villas, but phrases like "an experience to carry with you for life," "sensational visual experience," "views over the mesmerizing blue of Aegean Sea" are pure ad-speak or puffery. That is an advertisement for the villas, not an encyclopedia article about them. When writing for Wikipedia you have to imagine a hostile critic looking over your shoulder saying, at every glowing adjective: "Who says so? Can you prove it from a reliable independent source? No? then take it out!" Even stuff like "equipped with manually controlled A/C, Solar boilers, satellite TV, Wi-Fi" is the sort of detail suitable for your website or a brochure, not an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business listing directory, and is selective about article subjects - they have to be notable, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones like agents, and anything based on press releases.
And even if the subject were notable and the article were neutrally written, as an employee of the business you have, from our point of view, a conflict of interest and would be subject to strict rules described there and in WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. Your article illustrates one of the problems: someone with a COI is liable to be so enthusiastic about his product and so used to selling it that he can't see that what he is writing is promotional. At most, you could suggest an article, declaring your interest, and see whether other users were prepared to accept it.

I am sorry to be discouraging, but Wikipedia only manages to maintain itself as a useful encyclopedia by having strict rules, and it really is not for what you want to do. JohnCD (talk) 16:12, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]