User talk:Leokpwong

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Hello, Leokpwong, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Steaz and WP:COI

I've cleaned up the page for Steaz, and I believe it will be kept at this point. I guess you can call this a Christmas present from a relatively anonymous Wikipedian. :P

The major problems with the existing article was that 1) The tone of the article sounded promotional (e.g. excessive detail about product listing and the availability of the products / where to purchase them) and 2) the sources cited were press releases from the company itself. Because these sources are not independent of the subject, they are not appropriate to use to establish the notability of the company.

I am glad you have restricted yourself to asking questions about how to improve the page and participating civilly at the deletion discussion. That said, I would highly recommend not involving yourself or anyone else associated with Steaz in maintaining the article, unless it is for noncontroversial changes (i.e. vandalism, fixing spelling and grammar errors, making edits agreed to on the talk page of the article, etc.). There are obvious problems with trying to minimize bias in Wikipedia articles if people involved within a given business are actively editing their own articles. Companies are motivated to publically represent themselves in the best possible light and often try to use Wikipedia articles as another way to sell or get the word out about their products. But Wikipedia is not for promotion and we don't necessarily censor bad press on companies, either.

Anyway, I do encourage you to edit Steaz according to the guidelines above, and to help contribute to Wikipedia. Thanks, I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 19:28, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jethrobot, I hope this is the correct way to thank you. I read your User Page and it said I should respond on my talk page so that is what I am trying to do. I do, of course, work for Steaz but was only brought in after the initial article was published. I have told the original contributor (who I believe has been blocked anyway) the COI rules and can assure you that no one from our company will attempt to edit this page. I guess the community will support it if the community deems it supportable. I don't really understand the Wikipedia community but am encouraged by your selfless actions to fix our page. I will see if there is a way I can contribute to Wikipedia. Thanks for being a good Santa!