SpencerGolding

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 10:42, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! avs5221^{(talk|contrib)} 11:53, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Articles for creation: Swallowfield PLC

Dear Excirial,

Many thanks for taking the time to review/decline my article on 'Swallowfield PLC'.As a first time user of Wikipedia I now understand the reasons for why it was declined. I have made as many adjustments as I can to make it appear as neutral as possible. It should be re-submitted in the next week. I know that my sources were told that they 'should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject'. These are the only sources I can use at present to back up what I have written, so how can I improve/better them, as I cannot see how to further improve their reliability. I also added a section on the awards the company has won. Can I still include these, or is that deemed as advertising too?

Thank you in advance.

SpencerGolding (talk) 08:32, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Hiyas SpencerGolding,

Apologies it took me two days to get back to you - ironically i have more time to reply during weekdays then i have during weekends. I see you are in the process of writing a new version, but before that i would have to point out that reliable sources are mandatory when creating an article. Reliable sources are indeed, as you quoted "independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject". If you do not have any of these available at the time being, i would strongly suggest searching those before spending time rewriting the article. While promotional language is an issue, the only steps required to fix that is rewriting the pagein a non promotional tine. A lack of reliable sources on the other hand is more serious, as not having reliable sources will generally result in a blanket decline for a page. This is in part because the importance threshold for inclusion On Wikipedia (called notability) is also based on reliable sources trough the general notability guideline. If there are no such sources then rewriting a page generally won't do any good as the notability issue is still present. Aren't there any other sources besides the companies own website? Eg? Aren't there any independent newspaper article's, specialist literature or any websites of significant size that wrote something about the company?

Also as a bit of a general caution - i see you are closely related to Swallowfield PLC since you are an employee for the company. This is a so called conflict of interest, or a situation where you are so closely related to a subject that writing a neutral article may be difficult. In those cases there is a general recommendation against writing about that subject; Seeing that you are submitting the article trough AFC for review makes this less of an issue though, as it can be checked beforehand for any issues. Just make sure to double-check what you are writing for promotional parts - it is rather easy for those to sneak in. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 21:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

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Hello! SpencerGolding, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 21:17, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Sionk (talk) 23:59, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Zach Vega (talk to me) 01:21, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! K7L (talk) 01:04, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:29, 29 September 2012 (UTC)