Arketi

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Speedy deletion nomination of Mobile Labs

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A tag has been placed on Mobile Labs, 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 encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Conflict of interest policy

Hello, Arketi. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
• instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 16:32, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your response

Hi Arketi. Thank you for your response. I'm going to copy it here so others can find it easily. --Ronz (talk) 23:47, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

I saw your message on my talk page about my "conflict of interest" edits on other articles. I'm a new user to Wikipedia and don't have a lot of experience with publishing content on here, so I apologize for what may have appeared as a conflict of interest. After reading more about Wikipedia's COI policies, I saw that in order to avoid being penalized I will need to add a "paid contributor" tag to any article I write associated with a client of mine.

Since you seem to have a lot of experience with Wikipedia, I wanted to get your feedback and guidance on what I should do going forward. If my content is factual and backed with third party resources, does disclosing this "paid editor" information at the top of my article keep my content from being deleted? I tried creating an article for a client of mine, Mobile Labs, and included at least 6 third party, credible references (not links to the clients website) and my article was still deleted. Do you think it is worth trying to publish the page again with the paid contributor tag? Or do you still think the article will be deleted?

Any guidance or advice you can offer is appreciated,

Arketi (talk) 19:13, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Arketi

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I wish everyone in your situation would respond similarly.

First, you should change your username to something other than your company name per WP:CORPNAME.

You should seek out other paid editors to compare notes, but you are no the right track: Declare your interest on the talk page of any article you work on where you have a clear COI. Follow WP:PAY and WP:COIADVICE carefully while you learn how to edit with a COI. Be patient with the editors that respond to you edit requests and edits.

As far as deletion of articles is concerned, focus on meeting the general notability guideline and additional requirements for any specific notability guideline that applies. In the case of creating an article for a company or organization, WP:CORP is the specific notability guideline, which includes specific clarification and examples that you'll find helpful.

I didn't see the initial article you created, some can't comment on why it was deleted.

Because you have a COI, use the WP:AFC process when creating articles. You should focus on creating an article proposal for review, knowing that you'll need others' involvement to get it approved. If it is declined, editors will be able to review what you proposed, why it was declined, and can help create a proposal that will be acceptable.

As far as deletion of content is concerned, it's not straightforward, especially when you're new to Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines. You can't go far wrong when you provide sources that are both independent and secondary. Try to include such sources in all your edit requests.

I'm not very familiar with many of the rules of thumb that paid editors use, beyond knowing Wikipedia's policies and guidelines well and following them strictly. WP:PAIDHELP looks like a good resource. The talk pages of relevant policy/guideline/etc pages are always good resources.

I hope you find this helpful. --Ronz (talk) 00:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)