User talk:Chriskaspar

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Hello, Chriskaspar. You have new messages at Stefan2's talk page.
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Stefan2 (talk) 21:27, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some notes

Hello, Chriskaspar. I'm Seraphimblade, one of the admins here. I declined the speedy deletion nomination in this case, as the article was not blatantly promotional to the point it needs to be gotten rid of right away, and it appears that a good article on this company may be feasible. You indicated in your dispute to the speedy that you were interested in learning some of the best practices we use, so I hoped to give you a few pointers the right direction.

The first thing would be to take a look through the links on the welcome template you got at the top of this page, if you've not had the chance to do that yet. They give a good idea as to what we're looking for in articles. The primary principle is that articles must be written from a neutral point of view, incorporating relevant information in a neutral tone without being unduly promotional or derogatory. Toward that end, we look for content to be verifiable through a published source. Currently, the article's citations are written mainly to the company's own published information. While that's fine for certain uncontroversial facts, such as location, years in business, number of employees, and such, an article should mainly be written from reliable sources that are not published by the subject or someone having a reason to promote them. Using a variety of sources that aren't connected to the subject helps ensure that neutrality.

From the username you've selected, it appears you may have a close connection to the article's subject. That does not bar you from participating if so, and we welcome your input. However, since it's very easy for unconscious bias to occur in cases like that, we recommend as a best practice that editors with such a connection suggest edits and sources on the article's talk page, and bring them to the attention of other editors by placing the {{editrequested}} template with them. That allows another editor to review them, and make them with any necessary changes.

Editing here can be a good bit to take in. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a note on my talk page (link will be in my signature at the end of this message), and I'll try to point you the right direction. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 18:07, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Seraphimblade,

Thank you for your response and declining the nomination. I agree that a good article appears to be feasible and I would love to see this become a legitimate Wikipedia friendly and approved article and would like to play by the rules etc. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help with doing so.

Thank you for the pointers. I agree with your edits, including the removal of the section which could have it's own article. I want to have a NPOV and as you mentioned there is some COI so I am going to go ahead and limit my edits and use the {{editrequested}} instead. I am also aware of the lack of 2nd and 3rd party links to incorporate other reliable sources other than company sources.

Again, thank you for the help. Chriskaspar (talk) 19:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)Chriskaspar[reply]

November 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Texas Precious Metals‎. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Werieth (talk) 15:39, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Werieth, many of the issues the tags this template holds are in fact unsupported and have already been rectified and are being disussed on the article talk page. Please stop vandalizing this page without supporting evidence or reason.Chriskaspar (talk) 15:44, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:VAND. Further removal of these templates will result in you being blocked. I will provide details and rationale on the talk page. But you are the director of marketing and 99% of the article was written by you. Werieth (talk) 15:48, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Werieth,

First, I am the great-great grandson of the founder of the manufacturing conglomerate that Texas Precious Metals exists under and it is about time that an article is written for this company that has existed for over 100 years and is recognized by multiple state historical organizations. Secondly, I am not the marketing director. I realize that being a great-great-grandson does present some COI which I have acknowledged multiple times, but I feel as if it is small and can easily be corrected (as it has) by other editors willing to take my edit requests. I also recognize I have written about 80% of the article, but I have requested for other editors to help establish a NPOV without COI. I feel as if the article at this point does not require much work at all to establish a NPOV and does not deserve tags but am open to any contributions (not unjustified tags like the one you have placed) of people that feel otherwise.Chriskaspar (talk) 16:11, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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