User talk:Ealcoop23

I am employed by Syniverse Technologies and would like to contribute information that will help in the development of a Syniverse page, as well as any Syniverse-related pages. I am familiar with WP:COI guidelines, which I fully intend to follow.

If you have questions or would like to contact me, please leave a message on my talk page.

Thanks!

WikiProject Syniverse Technologies

If you want to start the page Syniverse Technologies, just hit this red link and write it. I noticed the page has been deleted three times, so be careful with the content you will provide. However, before you start the article, as you are new, you'd better read about Wikipedia policies (if you already read WP:COI, and agrees to follow it, than we have 50% less problems). Also, take a look at other articles on companies (specially the largest and most famous ones, as they tend to be better written and built), to see how to write a company article. If possible, take a look at companies similar to Syniverse Technologies, to get some inspiration. Victor Lopes (talk) 18:29, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PS: WikiProjects are intended to reunited groups of people interested in a particular topic. And this topic must have multiple articles, so that the project will be running actively. For example, most of the countries and the largest cities of the world have Wikiprojects on them, because there will be multiple articles relating to it. Also, science branchs, very famous and popular bands, etc, may have a WikiProject. Note that not even São Paulo, the third or fourth largest city in the world is expected to have a Wikiproject, as you can see in my proposal...creating a project demands a number of people interested on it, otherwise, it will be just a defunct page. Victor Lopes (talk) 18:29, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. To be honest, there are very few chances (if any) for this project to be created, so...I believe you should drop the proposal. Just don't ask me how, I don't know if you can just erase the proposal or if you need to state there that you want to take it down...I think the latter is the most appropriate. Victor Lopes (talk) 18:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ealcoop23, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Incidentally, it's good that you know about the COI guidelines - not many people bother to read through them before contributing! How about you click on this link and start it in your own userspace (User:Ealcoop23/article)? There you can write it and it will be less likely to be deleted. When you're finished with it, go to the page titled Wikipedia:Articles for Creation and link to it from there, and someone will review it and create it for you. Make sure you use references!

~user:orngjce223 how am I typing? 15:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Starting a new article

OK, now the next thing to do is call someone over to look at it. I'll see the folks at the business-workgroups and see what they say about it.

Thanks, ~user:orngjce223 ☺ how am I typing? 17:51, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a bad article (not clear why you blanked it). A bit too long, or at least much too much about company information that has not been published in reliable sources, the sort of stuff that leads editors to slap an "advertising" template on the top of an article. Ideally, an article should never use a company web page or press release as a source, and should also have a source for every single statement. Yes, that would make the article a whole bunch shorter. But if readers really want to find information that is only in press releases, they can go to the company website (I assume).

Keep in mind that sources for article do not have to be online. An old(er) magazine or newspaper is absolutely fine to cite as a source. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:34, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the article (after unblanking your user page) to User:Ealcoop23/Syniverse Technologies.

One way to get the article to be consistent with Wikipedia rules is for you to make changes based on my suggestions. Unfortunately, that requires you to have to guess as to what my suggestions really mean, or for me to be very detailed in the suggestions. Another approach, which I prefer, is for me to make changes and then have you comment on them. (You can always revert any changes of mine, and the current version of the article will always be available via the history tab for the subpage, so nothing I - or any other editor does - is irreversible.) So, is it okay for me to make changes, or would you prefer to do so based on my general suggestions? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some changes; more to come. Please keep in mind that a lot of lower-quality publications simply take press releases and create "news articles" from them; as such, these fail Wikipedia's reliable source criteria. I haven't yet (removed) all such stuff, but (per WP:NOT), Wikipedia isn't an indiscriminate collection of information, so this needs to be trimmed back, which I'll do in the next edit. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your questions

The article Syniverse Technologies is live.

As far as each "cite needed" sentence, you have three choices: remove the sentence, footnote using a company web page (and delete the tag), or leave the "cite needed" tag in place. The last is easiest, and is perfectly acceptable; Wikipedia is a group project, so you're not (any longer, since not in your userspace) responsible for the article. (Nor do you own it any more, so to speak.)

In general, I think the basic question for "cite needed" text is whether any newspaper or magazine would be expected to have reported on the information. If so, and if you can't find such a source, then leaving the tag in place may be best. If not, then removing the text is probably best; alternatively, cite the company's website. But remember that if something happens that only the company takes notice of, that's generally an indication that the matter isn't important enough to include in the Wikipedia article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 16:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks

		The Special Barnstar
		Thanks for being willing to listen to our (ridiculously convoluted and honestly excessive, in my opinion) policies when writing your article. Then again, my opinion doesn't matter very much to a lot of them folks who actually write this stuff. ParlorGames 14:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC) formerly orngjce223[reply]

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