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  Hello Founder-CEO, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Startup company have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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Small and medium-sized enterprises

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Hello Founder-CEO, thank you for your efforts to improve this article, such contributions from topic experts are greatly appreciated. However there have been some basic problems with your recent additions to this article and I have reverted some parts of it. One problem may be the difference between an academic paper and an encyclopedic Wikipedia article. The latter should focus on a succinct description of dry verifiable facts without subjective assessments or personal analysis. Or in other words: Wikipedia articles should not teach their content, but merely present an overview of encyclopedic facts. Another important issue is WP:NOTGUIDE - simply put the article should provide a basic definition about what an SME is, not extensive guidance about how it should be run - most of the added "strategies" section did not provide specific facts but - often vague - advice. Lastly, content should never be written in first-person language or directly address the reader.

Sorry for the lengthy advice, but as I removed some larger parts of your recent contributions I wanted to explain the reasoning as detailed as possible to help with future edits. You'll still find the removed content in the article history if you'd like to re-use its references or some details. However, the section in its current form would need a different approach to present its content - ideally not as a list but in prose - and a complete rewrite. Please feel free to ping me if some of these aspects need clarification. I hope you'll continue to contribute and would be glad to help with any further questions. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 07:27, 20 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

March 2021

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Not sure what is going on here but you appear to be inserting works by a single author over multipe articles and none of them really add anything to what is already there and/or overclaim authority of said article. Citation spam is frowned on, especially if you are the author or in some way related to them -----Snowded TALK 09:32, 20 March 2021 (UTC)Reply