User talk:Magiccarpetlondon

Promotional Use

Hi.

You asked why I made this edit. I did so because it appeared that your previous edit (as IP user 2.223.15.4) was promotional in character. I apologise for leaving the page in a broken state; that was a mistake, mistakes do happen, and obviously mistakes are always better once they've been fixed.

But as you should know, Wikipedia should not be used, or seen to be used, for promotional purposes. In particular your username appears to contravene the Promotional names policy, and I suggest you follow the link to that policy and take it on board. And please be very careful, whether editing as Magiccarpetlondon or as an anonymous IP, not to be seen to use WP to promote any business in which you have any interest.

All the best, Nick Levine (talk) 12:42, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not so promotional use

Hi, Nick. Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not a Wikipedian and I do not advertise for anything. To clean things up, I created an account to keep track of the talks related to the change I made. If you want, I can change the username to anything, it does not make any difference to me whatsoever.

A. On the other hand, the end result of your work is that you left a broken link on that page. For the user, that's a dead end, a 404 page. That's how you, along with your experience in editing here, provide the users with an enjoyable browsing experience: by telling them to go to nonexistent pages.

B. My name has no bearing on this, please don't try to smudge it from an early start here on Wikipedia.

C. How are we going to resolve this? Either find an alternative, equivalent page for that piece of news (1) or revert to the page which I've added (2). And yes, I've written that content AFTER visiting the carpet page on wikipedia and seeing that there's a dead link there. --Magiccarpetlondon (talk) 17:11, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning.

My understanding is that a ^{[citation needed]} notice is generally preferable to an external link which appears to be promoting a business. And to repeat, I did not deliberately send anyone to a 404: I didn't know when I reverted your edit that the link was dead.

Fixing the original dead link has just taken me about five minutes, so now there's nothing left to resolve (other than, as already mentioned, your username which appears to contravene policy. Please see WP:RENAME for how to change it.

All the best, Nick Levine (talk) 12:02, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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

I noticed 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
The five pillars of Wikipedia
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Simplified Manual of Style

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Thanks for the welcome. When you greet someone new and let them know they might be banned from Wikipedia, you need to work on your people skills, if you ask me. I think you're overreacting and falsely assume that everyone is here to sell their products or services and that Wikipedia should be kept commercially-free. Well you can't do that. Wikipedia pages which describe businesses such as Viacom, Disney, Virgin and so on, are written proof of that -- but thanks anyway. --Magiccarpetlondon (talk) 17:15, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, only just spotted this note. I'm in a bit of a rush this morning, but: the blurb above wasn't written by me - it's a "standard" message; there's a difference between describing notable businesses and promoting your own, and I imagine I don't need to labour that point any more; and finally thank you for spotting that dead link in the first place, and in advance thanks for any future contributions you make. Cheers, Nick Levine (talk) 08:15, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]