User talk:BrookeHamann

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Mlpearc (open channel) 19:52, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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Help me!

Hi! This is all kind of overwhelming. I am an intern at a small company and I really wanted to find a way to get a wikipedia page for them. There is currently no Wikipedia sites about them. Their name is Environmental Design Group. I keep reading things and am getting mixed opinions? Am I able to make a page for them if it is unbiased? Or does a third party have to do it?

Thanks!

BrookeHamann (talk) 20:14, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

• A small company is unlikely to meet our notability requirements for companies, see WP:CORP. Those requirements need to be shown by reliable, independent sources (i.e., not the company's own website or press releases), see WP:V. That said, we do discourage company employees writing the page about their own company. Take a look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

So If I were to find a few independent sources, and asked one the Company's clients to make a page for me, then it would be possible?

BrookeHamann (talk) 20:23, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

• Theoretically yes. But take note of this excerpt from WP:CORP: "A company, corporation, organization, school, team, religion, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject. A single independent source is almost never sufficient for demonstrating the notability of an organization.

The depth of coverage of the subject by the source must be considered. If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple[1] independent sources should be cited to establish notability. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject is not sufficient to establish notability. Deep coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond routine announcements and makes it possible to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub about an organization." NawlinWiki (talk) 21:05, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

You should also take a look at the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use governing paid editing. Huon (talk) 21:29, 23 January 2015 (UTC)