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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Emily.white89/Rexnord Corporation

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A tag has been placed on User:Emily.white89/Rexnord Corporation requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.rexnord.com/News/Pages/article_RexnordtoacquireEuroflex.aspx. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Rexnord Corporation Official Logo.jpg

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Hello Emily.white89. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Esfeld89. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Esfeld89|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

• it did not 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 company, 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 company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no in-line references. Although you dumped some external links at the end, we cannot tell what fact each is supporting because they were not in line, and most were unsuitable as references anyway because they are affiliated to the company.
• it's all about what the company sells, little about the company itself. To show notability you need more hard facts such as turnover or profits.
• it was written in a promotional tone.

• It's just a list of what you sell and a bit of history, no verifiable hard facts about the company
• Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: highly-engineered mechanical components used within complex systems... products that provide and enhance water quality, safety, flow control and conservation...— half of your prose text (ie, not lists) is promotional

With regard to the image, you can use it as fair use, but only in the article itself, not in a user page. I also have official approval from Rexnord Corporation to use their copyrighted images—There are ways to donate copyrighted images to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you have permission to use the images, isn't sufficient. We need an OTRS ticket so that we can verify that the company has agreed to the images being distributed, modified and used by anyone for any purpose including commercial. For legal reasons, we can't just take your word.
Another admin, Randykitty, moved the text to your user page, which gives some protection particularly with regard to referencing and notability issues, but, as here, it can still be tagged for other issues such as copyright or promotion. JustBerry nominated it as spam and I deleted.

Your edits indicate that you have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. I have posted a standard warning at the start of this reply, and before I consider restoring, I am requiring you to declare your COI as indicated. If you edit without doing so, you will be blocked

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:30, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

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Jimfbleak Thank you for the message. I appreciate the steps to disclose COI; I was not previously aware this had to be posted on my user page, nor did I know how to do so. This is now indicated on my user page. I assume I can now proceed with edits, provided I cite sufficient references and remove promotional verbiage. I am currently working on an improved article in my sandbox. I am new to Wikipedia and while I appreciate everyone's directions and support, I am not intentionally trying to sound promotional or overstep any rules. I'm learning as I go along. Emily.white89 (talk) 13:28, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

COI is something we have tightened up on recently due to a major problem with undisclosed paid editors. While we don't encourage COI editing, it's not banned as long as it's transparent. Thank you for your disclosure. Going back to pictures pictures again, I don't think fair use is applicable, except for the logo, because free pictures could presumably be taken. As I said before, you can only use copyright pictures if the company verifies permission as I explained above, or changes the web page to make them explicitly public domain

I'll have a look at your sandbox Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:23, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

I made these edits. Note the use of ref name for repeated refs. You should use <ref>[url description]</ref> rather than bare urls to make your references intelligible. Use more wikilinks, like Milwaukee, and use normal capitalisation. You have many nouns capitalised that are not proper nouns Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:40, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rexnord (October 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Rexnord and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Onel5969 ^{TT me} 01:30, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Emily.white89, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Onel5969 TT me 01:30, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rexnord (November 4)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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SwisterTwister talk 19:17, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Some copyright information

Hello Emily.white89, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Draft:Rexnord has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. /wia /tlk 17:43, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

{{OTRS pending}}

Emily.white89 (talk) 18:01, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Emily.white89, I have commented out the {{OTRS pending}} tag on your talk page. It should be placed on the draft talk page, not on your user page. --B (talk) 20:24, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rexnord (November 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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LaMona (talk) 23:44, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Falk Corporation

The article Falk Corporation has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

There is an article for the only thing notable about this company, which is the 2006 Falk Corporation explosion. Other than that event, this company is not notable. The majority of the references here are about the explosion. The remainder are about the company being purchased. Searching (Google, G-books) does not turn up sources for the unsourced history information.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. LaMona (talk) 16:38, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Falk Corporation and Rexnord Coporation Logo.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Falk Corporation and Rexnord Coporation Logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)