Mandyppg

June 2010

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. Acroterion _(talk) 15:04, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this:

1. You may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
2. Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guideline to avoid editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Acroterion _(talk) 16:08, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Acroterion _(talk) 16:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I have removed the promotional content from your last post. Please note that there is already an article on PPG Industries, but I agree that there should be a separate daughter article on PPG Pittsburgh Paints. Please do not use WIkipedia to promote the company or its products. Your username implies that you are working on behalf of PPG, which should be avoided as a conflict of interest. Acroterion _(talk) 16:11, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

First, are you associated with PPG's marketing department? If so, you should strictly avoid even a hint of promotion, or not be editing this topic at all. Second, external links to product information should be strictly limited to the company's main site. External links that promote products or services are removed, with prejudice. Encyclopedic, neutral material that addresses corporate history or unique aspects of a given line (like corporate acquisitions, name changes and the like) are acceptable, but this is not the place to promote PPG or Olympic. Acroterion _(talk) 16:14, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I'd say a brief history of the three brands would not be out of place. The material should be referenced from reliable sources, and the company's information would be appropriate there. I can help with formatting. Just remember, if it looks like it would be out of place in Britannica, it's out of place here. Acroterion _(talk) 16:18, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: the "other two pages", I assume you mean a page for Porter and a page for Olympic. While it's an editorial judgment, I'd suggest that you keep it all on one page, and the pages for Porter Paints and Olympic Stains and Coatings (or whatever title is appropriate) should just redirect to the central page you've already made, unless the products are so distinct that they should appear on multiple pages. As an observation, one useful function of Wikipedia is to document and preserve the genealogies of companies and acquired brands, so we can see what happened to Kelvinator and Packard and so on, so a discussion of the origins of the prior histories of the brands concerned would not go amiss. Acroterion _(talk) 19:29, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Mandyppg, does not meet our username policy.

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