TimOhlrich

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, TimOhlrich. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Straight North, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

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. --Richard Yin (talk) 16:57, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Straight North

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A tag has been placed on Straight North, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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August 2015

Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses. Wikipedia is not the Yellow pages. If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 17:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for sending that over and I do apologize for that. Straight North is a company I used to work for and I wanted to create this page for them because of the recent awards that they have won. I tried to model it off of this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Magnetism). Would it be possible for you to help me out to see what these guys did differently?

To be honest you picked a questionable page to copy from. The Customer Magnetism page has a bit less promotional tone/wording than what I remember from your entry, but it's still pretty bad in that regard. Also, I don't have time to look into it too much, but I'm beginning to suspect that Consumer Magnetism doesn't meet the general notability guideline required for a standalone entry on Wikipedia. --Richard Yin (talk) 18:19, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

That makes total sense. It also is why I was pretty surprised when this happened so quickly. Thank you for taking the time to look this over. I really do appriciate it. If I can figure out a way to make it fit the guidelines better I will give it another shot. Thank you again for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 40.136.187.201 (talk) 13:01, 21 August 2015 (UTC)