Higer1215
Welcome!
editHello, Higer1215, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 22:17, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Advice as promised
editThe first thing to say is, understand that you may not get an article. Wikipedia does not set out to be a business listing directory, and the Wikipedia:Notability standard is, deliberately, quite a high bar.
The Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide explains what you need to know. Don't edit directly, but make a draft article through Wikipedia:Articles for creation, taking the option to send it for review by an experienced user, who will either accept it or give you feedback.
Take care not to seem to be telling the story the company wants the world to hear. Everyone sees Wikipedia as a free platform to do that, and we are correspondingly resistant to it. Beware of "peacock words", but an article doesn't need to say "Buy now!!!" or "Our intellectual professionally well managed team here aids to turn budding organizations into Business Reality" (a real example) to be promotional. You are not addressing a potential customer or investor, but a general encyclopedia reader, who can click on to your website if he wants more detail. The article should be what an outsider might write, who had become interested enough to do some research about the company. Experience shows that this is extremely difficult for people writing about their own company, which i one reason we are so discouraging of COI editing.
I have this conversation so often that I have written User talk:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard to cover most of the issues. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:17, 19 April 2016 (UTC)