Jknepfle

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BabyFit

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as BabyFit, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://babyfit.sparkpeople.com/about-us.asp. As a copyright violation, BabyFit appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. BabyFit has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:BabyFit. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at BabyFit, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. -- Merope ^Talk 20:53, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Sparkpeople

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Sparkpeople, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://sparkpeople.com/about/index.asp. As a copyright violation, Sparkpeople appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Sparkpeople has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Sparkpeople. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Sparkpeople, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. -- Merope ^Talk 20:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

BabyFit and SparkPeople

I see on the talk page for BabyFit that you are an employee of the corporation involved and thus have permission to reproduce the text on the company website. However, the articles as they currently stand are advertisements, which is against Wikipedia policy. If you can recreate the article using reliable sources, they might qualify for inclusion. -- Merope ^Talk 18:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

The problem with the article is that it does not meet Wikipedia's standards for inclusion for websites. Has SparkPeople been mentioned in published sources (excluding press releases)? If so, you'll want to edit that in. (Also, as an aside: we don't sign articles we submit--we just do that for talk pages.) I hope I don't sound too harsh; it's really hard for newcomers such as yourself to know all the policies for inclusion. I'll do my best to help. -- Merope ^Talk 18:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

It looks good. It'll need to be wikified, but I can do that. -- Merope ^Talk 19:31, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of SparkPeople

A tag has been placed on SparkPeople, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia per CSD g11.

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• I do believe this was placed in error and have added the {{hangon}} tag. Please let me know what to do from here...Jknepfle 16:13, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Leave a note on the talk page justifying why it shouldn't be deleted. – ornis⚙ 16:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I have done so. I am simply trying to write an encylopedic entry for the company SparkPeople, Inc. which runs one of the most visited and highest traffic diet and health sites (per Hitwise and BusinessWeek) as cited in the article. The way I understand it, simply having a site for a company does not violate any guidelines ("Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion. ").Jknepfle 16:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

You'll also note the discussion I had with the original version of this page with Merope, which was resolved. Then, the article was deleted after nearly a year of being on Wikipedia.Jknepfle 16:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Just doing my Wikipedia job. There are assertions and proof of notability in the article (Business Week). Contrary to the repost and edit summary, I do have the right to remove the template and will do it again. If a subject is notable enough to probably survive AfD, then it obviously shouldn't be speedied. Smashville 16:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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Potential conflict of interest related to SparkPeople

Since it seem you may be an employee of SparkPeople, I recommend that you read some of the guidelines below. Deli nk (talk) 18:54, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Jknepfle. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Deli nk (talk) 18:54, 17 January 2017 (UTC)