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Polyvinyl chloride

Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Polyvinyl chloride. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Galloping Moses (talk) 09:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference

Hi Moonriddengirl

Thank you for setting up the initial post for the Asia Petrochemical Industries Conference. I represent the company that is responsible for creating the website for this major regional conference. Please see - www.apic-online.org. As I am still relatively new to Wikipedia, can you please advise how I might be able to get the APIC logo updated in the current post on APIC which I believe was done by you - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Petrochemical_Industry_Conference.

Thank you for your advice. I will be more than happy to continue enhancing the initial work done by you but honestly speaking, sometimes it can be very disappointing making the contributions only to have someone delete the entries. I had previously submitted some posts but got deleted because it was felt that they were advertisements. I disagreed because I was merely making it known to the members of the industry of the existence of some forum which would be of interest for them to participate. In a sense there are many similar posts in the Wikipedia which appears to be of similar orientation and yet have been left unedited - these are particularly those of multi-billion dollar corporations.

I sincerely hope you will restore my faith in Wikipedia.

Thank you for your help and advice.

Cheers

JdwwilsonJdwwilson (talk) 12:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm sorry you're feeling disillusioned by the reception to your edits, but unfortunately our community works through consensus. If another contributor disagrees that your content meets one of our core content policies (Neutral Point of View, Verifiability, No original research) or feels it is otherwise inappropriate (in this case, I suspect he was concerned about the external links guideline), he may remove your content. At that point, you need to discuss the matter with him and other contributors. Some suggestions for doing so are set out at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.

One point I need to cover first, as an employee of the website company you need to be aware of our conflict of interest guideline. It isn't impossible for you to contribute to the article, but we do ask that you familiarize yourself with the practices described there and follow them carefully. Wikipedia is a prominent web presence and many companies and people do attempt to use us for promotion. We don't want to discourage people from contributing, but we do want to try to minimize that issue as much as possible. To that end, we ask that you be straightforward about your connection to the company and that you be conservative in modifying the article. See also our FAQ for organizations, which has more information.

You will undoubtedly find some articles on Wikipedia that clearly violate this guideline. We have over three million articles at this point, and improving them is an ongoing goal. Sometimes problems with an article may not have been found and addressed. But sometimes — and I don't know what articles you've been looking at — there are subtle differences that make the content appropriate in one when similar is not in another. For instance, you may see praise for a company or its products in one article; this is permitted if it is attributed and sourced to a notable entity that is not connected to the subject (what we call a reliable source) and if it is part of a "balanced" view of the subject that incorporates in proportion criticism of the company, if any exists. You may also see more minute details about a company's operations in a more fully developed article than in a brief one, such as this. An article should pay attention to topics about the subject in appropriate weight, not focusing too much on current activities or specific events. Too, Wikipedia is not a resource for conducting business. Information in the article should be of interest to a general readership and not focused on customers or, in this case, members. Presumably, members who are interested in your current activities will visit your website. This is an opportunity for the public at large to read about your work.

So, finally, the image. :) The image that I used was already on the project at the time I created the article; it is located here. If the logo is outdated, you can replace it with the current one. At the bottom of that page, you'll see a link that says "Upload a new version of this file." Follow it, and it will guide you through the process. You can and should ignore some of the directions, though. In this case, the name of the file is already selected and the basic information is already provided. What you need to do is explain under file changes that the logo has changed and that you are uploading the current one. (Please be sure your source file is not too big! For non-free images like logos we keep them small. They display well on the screen but do not print well, which helps avoid misuse.) Since I have myself never replaced a file, I'm not sure if you'll be required to select something from the pull-down "license" menu or not. If they do, scroll down to where it says "Logo." Once you upload the image at the same file name, it will automatically update in the article.

Please let me know at my talk page if you have any questions about any of this. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:04, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

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