User talk:Cheetham1E

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Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means, and on Notability (organizations and companies) for more detail. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:

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You should not write articles about yourself, your band, your client, your boss or your best friend - that's a conflict of interest.
Wikipedia is not an advertising service or business directory. Before writing about your own business, read Business' FAQ.
For experiments, please use the sandbox.

JohnCD (talk) 13:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1E

A tag has been placed on 1E, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of 1E and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 13:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article 1E, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:46, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The reason for our conflict-of-interest rules is that even with the best intent in the world, it's hard to look at something you're personally involved with objectively. The article you wrote, for example, is full of favorable descriptions of 1E which may be true, as you see it, but are not backed up by reliable sources. There is no reason you couldn't try to create a more impartial version in a sandbox in your own workspace, then ask a couple of editors to have a look at it. (I would advise you to change your username, though, as it brands you as a company rep.) If you feel there is advertising language in an article, remove it; but "there's inappropriate content in Wikipedia" is an unfortunate fact, not an excuse to add more. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:32, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]