User talk:Alexandraice

January 2015

Hello, I'm Iwilsonp. I noticed that you recently removed some content from ICE Portal without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!

If you wish to delete the page, due to conflict of interest reasons, please put a speedy deletion request by author template on the page (which can be found at WP:SPEEDY) Iwilsonp (talk) 20:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. We were all learners once. To request a speedy deletion of a page you have written, go to Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G7. Author requests deletion, copy one of the templates under that heading (the things down at the bottom of that section with the double curly brackets around them), and put it at the top on the specific page. This will request deletion and the page will be deleted, generally in minutes. Iwilsonp (talk) 23:18, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think you need to be concerned about the message. When you search for ICE portal with Wikipedia's search bar, it redirects you to the standard "Search Results" page, with no mention that there once was such a page, and it was deleted. Also, doing a Google search for ICE portal turns up no Wikipedia results in the first page. Even telling Google to search only wikipedia.org (by putting in site:wikipedia.org) and to search for only the phrase ICE portal (by "ICE portal") does not turn up the deletion log page, only something listing it as needing work (and who's going to do that, if they're just looking for info on ICE portal). You have to go directly to the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_portal to get the deletion log. In short, the message is not notable at all, so you shouldn't worry about negative publicity. However, take this close call as warning: I have heard (though I cannot cite sources for this) of people editing Wikipedia pages to promote their organization/affiliates, then having it backfire into a storm of negative publicity in the media when their conflict of interest editing was found out by a journalist (you can imagine the headlines yourself). Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy is there to protect you too. You do not want what happened at this Scientology case to happen to your company's page. Iwilsonp (talk) 20:57, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]