User talk:Bfmaccount

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Hello, Bfmaccount, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Baldor Specialty Foods, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Baldor Specialty Foods

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A tag has been placed on Baldor Specialty Foods, 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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Hi, thanks for message. If you repost, you need note the following.

Make sure you provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management.
To show notability you need hard facts such as the number of employees, turnover or profits, not just what you sell.
Write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
I think it's been made clear that copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. Note that close paraphrasing is still a copyright violation

Your edits indicate that you have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

It's clear that you work directly or indirectly on behalf of the company. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Bfmaccount. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bfmaccount|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.

You can recreate the page directly, since I've not protected it from recreation. You might alternatively want to consider posting it here first and getting me to have a look first, rather than just throwing it to the wolves, let me know. Before you do either though, you must declare your conflict of interest as indicated above Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:59, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]