User talk:Dankimdigital

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Speedy deletion nomination of CCC Information Services

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thank you for this ... I have studied the wizard and now understand the requirements for notability, especially for organizations.

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Tony Aquila, Mitchell International, and Solera

Dear Dank I.M. Digital,

I hope I got your name right - you haven't told us anything about yourself on your user page, so I'm not sure.

Anyway, I see that you're quite interested in Tony Aquila and two companies that he is connected to, namely Solera Holdings and Mitchell International, Inc.. Could you clarify what the source of that interest is? If you happen to be a Digital Image Manager (dank or otherwise), please take very careful note of our conflict of interest policy, especially the section on paid editing. --Slashme (talk) 07:16, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to Wiki but have been covering the automotive and insurance tech sector for awhile from the buy-side. I am not a "Digital Image Manager" (as I don't know what that necessarily means... If I did something incorrectly, please let me know as I'm still learning the rules of Wiki (I recently tried adding a competitor to Mitchell and Solera (CCC Information Services), but it was "deleted speedily"... because it did not meet notability requirements (?). In any case, fintech and insurance is an interesting area to me... but again, if I am doing things wrong here on Wiki, please let me know... thank you! PS - I will take a look at the user page -- I didn't know about it until just now

OK, please excuse my suspicious tone: we find many articles on businesses and biographies being edited in a promotional way by paid editors, so we are a bit sensitive about the topic. My advice would be: whenever you're editing, think what a company would put in a press release, and don't write that. (Sort of only kidding.) Rather, ask yourself what someone who knows nothing about the company would expect to see in an encyclopedia article about the company.

Feel free to leave messages on my talk page if you would like help on any particular topic. There's also the Teahouse - I'll leave a note below this message about it. --Slashme (talk) 08:07, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! And I really do appreciate the guidance... esp the "no press release" reference... Looking forward to contributing more, but not without first learning all of the Wiki guidelines and best practices...!

Good luck on that: it's basically impossible to learn all the guidelines and best practices. However, the nice thing about Wikipedia is that you really can't break it, so as long as you're making an effort to be nice, and have a relatively thick skin, you can pitch in however you like. If people undo your edits, go to the talk page and explain what you're doing, and call them into the conversation by writing {{Ping|someuser}} at the start of your edit. If you don't understand why something is being done in some way, just ask - maybe you're right and they're wrong. Also, a good place to get help on a topic might be the relevant WikiProject, for example in this case it would be Wikipedia:WikiProject_Companies. Maybe poke around there; see who's active and leave a message on a few talk pages to get more help and to find more stuff that interests you?

By the way, you'll notice that I formatted your reply slightly: Instead of using four "=" signs to break up the conversation, I just indented it by starting the line with a colon. --Slashme (talk) 20:06, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again... this time, with a colon!Digitalbydesign 01:36, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

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thank you

I just joined and created a profile. Digitalbydesign 18:13, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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