User talk:Nathanacorn

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Speedy deletion nomination of List of Servos

A tag has been placed on List of Servos, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which 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 guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Hello Wizard191. I apologize for the "List of Servos" page which you had to delete. My intention was to add additional servos made by other companies, and list additonal sources for those. I am not affiliated with any of the companies I linked to - I am customer and I felt a list of available servos and sources would be useful to others as well as to me. Do you think that if I come up with a more complete page (including servos from a variety of companies) that this would be a good wikipedia article? Or should I just find a different site to host this list? Thanks very much Acorn (Nathan) (talk)

FYI conflict of interest guideline

see also: Wikipedia is not a soapbox and What may I not have on my user page?

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia in Template:List of Servos, List of Servos, or other articles, 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; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with 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 organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. — Athaenara ✉ 20:52, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Athaenara. I do not think I have a conflict of interest. I am not affiliated with any of those companies. I use servos and wanted to compile a list of what was available for my own use, and I thought such a list might be useful to others. I am considering putting the page (which Wizard191 removed) back once I have expanded the list to include more companies (none of which I am affiliated with). Does that sound reasonable, or is wikipedia not a good place for a list such as this? Thanks Acorn (Nathan) (talk)