User talk:Upchristoff
a strange experience with wikipedia...Upchristoff (talk) 16:28, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because
- it did not provide adequate 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. Much of the text was unsourced or sourced only to the college or its affiliates.
- it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. It's all about what the company claims, 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 text was all about the courses you sell.
- At least three contributors to this and related articles had user names that are not permitted under our user name policies, some were sockpuppets of blocked users or had an obvious undeclared conflict of interest
- as Head of Marketing at the TTC, I should know about this, and I haven't touched this page at all.— that's good. 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:Upchristoff. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Upchristoff|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}.
TTC should be presented at wikipedia.—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. Please don't edit this article, and note that on the evidence so far that anyone recreating is likely to be blocked if they appear to be breaching our policies or terms and conditions, or are sockpuppets of blocked editors Jimfbleak - talk to me? 18:58, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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