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Foreword INDIES

You appear to be an WP:SPA who is primarily focused on adding reviews to ForeWord Indies which is a vanity award site where people pay for reviews in exchange for marketing services such as on social media including through Wikipedia. I believe all of these reviews should include a link to the vanity award article and/or removed as being unreliable, per WP:RS. If you disagree I would be happy to open a wider discussion about it with the Wikipedia community to see where consensus is. -- GreenC 20:47, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

This is my personal account, but yes, I have used it solely in connection to Foreword Reviews (and Foreword INDIES) as of late. "Foreword INDIES" is an awards program that authors and publishers can pay to register for consideration. However, these do not get "reviews". We choose finalists in each category, and have a librarian and bookseller choose the winners in their categories. We also choose two "Editor's Choice" winners, and a "Publisher of the Year". This program was previously known as "Book of the Year Awards" and "Foreword INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards". We market finalists and winners in our magazine and on our social media, as well as announcing these books to our newsletter subscribers and readers on our website. We also market these books specially at trade shows around the world (highlighting them as finalists/winners).

Our review services are separate from the INDIES. Our primary review service is free and the reviews are included in our magazine, posted to our website, and shared with licensees who then provide it to librarians and booksellers around the country (world?). Our paid review service, Clarion Reviews, is similar, however reviews do not appear in the magazine, and include a star rating (1 being bad, 5 being good). Reviews are [rating=1..3 not guaranteed to be good]. The reviews are also shared on our social media, tagging respective authors and publishers. We absolutely do not edit/add Wikipedia articles in connection to any of these services.

As I mentioned on the Vanity award talk page, Foreword Reviews is known and respected by Publishers Weekly, Patagonia, the University of Minnesota, and more. Additionally, the recent work I've done on Wikipedia has been to add citations, fix data, and add missing links. I have not added references to any Foreword content; I have only added links and citations for textual references that already existed. And as far as I'm aware, these textual references were all added legitimately. Any that are found to not have been (eg, added from our old or new offices) should be removed (I'd be happy to help clean these up as well).

I'm just trying to make Wikipedia better by improving data, adding links, and adding verifiable (and up-to-date) citations. I've been very careful not to add (or remove) opinions about us, not to add additional textual references to us, or do anything else that could be considered a conflict of interest.

0b10011 (talk) 21:50, 13 November 2018 (UTC)