User talk:Patrickwatsondev

AerisWeather blanking

Hello, I'm Spshu. I noticed that you recently removed all content from AerisWeather. Please do not do this. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you wish to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. "According to AerisWeather.com, this was not correct for AerisWeather. AerisWeather is apparently also tangential to Paul Douglas but AerisWeather is definitely a data and mapping company. Lots of work needed here." This reason is not sufficient to remove sourced information. There have been a number of changes in Douglas' company which have been difficult to track given the lack of news coverage. Spshu (talk) 14:18, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Patrickwatsondev. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Please don't write promos for companies. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:42, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please sign your messages. I posted the COI notice above because you wrote a promo for a company, Vultr, which usually indicates a paid relationship with a company. If you say that's not the case, i'll assume good faith.

Also read the following regarding writing an article

you must 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 organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, 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 organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls

Although you gave references, are all effectively sites where companies can write their own content, or are PR sites that just repeat or quote what the company says.

The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

significant coverage in
independent,
multiple,
reliable,
secondary sources.

Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.

Even if the refs were better, it's hard to show notability when the company appears to have no employees, management structure, income or profit. For all we are told, it could just be Aninowsky in his basement

you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

Instead of real facts, we get what amounts to advertising with the vision of providing developers and businesses with a user-friendly, scalable, and cost-effective cloud computing platform... a comprehensive set of cloud computing services tailored to meet a variety of needs... provides a one-stop portal...

there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
you must not copy text from elsewhere. 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. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. 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.

Also note that you should wikilink to other articles, eg cloud computing, Matawan, New Jersey

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:50, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tips, and apologies for still getting the hang of this. I don't work for Vultr but I do use them to host some of my projects and like their products. That said, the verbiage was just borrowed from their own materials/website/press so I apologize for the confusion - I'll revise as I think they definitely deserve a page given their size - they're bigger than Linode I think - at least by nodes, but it may have a smaller quantity of info.

Give me a few days and I'll resubmit a better product, thanks for the instruction on how to "wiki better"! Patrickwatsondev (talk) 01:49, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]