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I am trying to write a NEW article, "Glen Ivy Hot Springs." I am in the Marketing Department at Glen Ivy. I am looking to write an article for informational and historical purposes, and not as a marketing tool. I have seen a lot of Help articles on Wikipedia about conflicts of interest and writing about companies. I would hate to do all of the work for this new article and see it denied or deleted. Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated.
- If you've read some, you've probably see that we strongly recommend against what you're trying to do. Not to belabor this much, but it is very difficult to write about anything you have a personal or professional interest with in a purely objective manner, particularly if you're not familiar with WIkipedia or how sensitive many of our policies can be to sefl-interest.
- However, if you do go ahead (as almost everyone does when I give this spiel!) I guess I'd start with the following advice. First, and foremost, start by identifying the best sources available. From Wikipedia's point of view, this means stuff written as independently from the subject as possible (newspaper articles, magazine articles, academic journals, and books from real publishers are most likely to meet this criteria. Not press releases, nor articles that are lightly warmed over press releases.). Read what they say about the subject, and then use the information there not only to indicate what to say and not to say, but also how to weight it. It's not a matter of direct percentages, but if most of the best third-party sources talk about the subject in terms of some particular aspect of it, you'll want to make that a signficant part of the article. Of course, a few mechanical details can always be filled in from primary sources, but primarily, information and weight should stem from third-party sources, and preferably a range of them.
- There are a couple ways of starting articles on Wikipedia, and while it will be slower to do what I'm about to suggest, you might consider attempting to make a draft article and submit it to the Articles for Creation process. WP:AFC. It's heavily backlogged, and each submission can take time to review, and the reviewers (including myself) can be picky or a little inconsistent, you'll usually get someone who will tell you what's working and not, and what the next step toward improving it is. Short of drastically promotional material or any sort of copyright problem, at least you won't have your draft deleted out from under you while you're working.
- A quick word on copyright: Just write everything in your own words. Even if it is possible or arguable that some text could be justified (outside of quotes) as fair use or permitted by the author... the specific nuances of Wikipedia licensing can be confusing to new editors here, and the simplest solution is to write everything in your own words, period. (Again, if you want to quote someone briefly, that's different and fine, just attribute it and use quotation marks.)
- Anyway, I do apprecaite your interest in the encyclopedia, and it sounds like you would genuinely like to help us improve Wikipedia. Thank you! I hope something I've written here is helpful. Cheers, --j⚛e deckertalk 20:14, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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editYour user name apparently represents a company rather than an individual, so it is not acceptable. Please read WP:CORPNAME, and then choose a new user name for you as an individual. Please also read about conflict of interest. --David Biddulph (talk) 19:08, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, David. That is helpful information.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
88.104.31.21 (talk) 20:52, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
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