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Lead411 hot companies list

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Zynga. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. CliffC (talk) 13:42, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To follow up on the above, although there is no reason to believe anything but the best intentions, please be aware that there are a few Wikipedia content policies and guidelines that would suggest against adding notice of a relatively obscure local award en masse to the Wikipedia articles of each of the recipients. First, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This award has 100 recipients, many or most of which have their own articles already. If we added this notice to each of the 100 companies that would be a lot of information. Multiply that by the fact that there are many other minor honors out there, that most companies have won multiple awards, and that this only pertains to San Francisco companies (so other cities may have their own versions), and the result is that if we were to use this kind of information articles about startup companies would either be rather unhelpful trophy cases for local awards, or more likely coverage would be hopelessly incomplete and spotty. Second, there is a principle, WP:WEIGHT, by which information in an article should be roughly in due proportion to its importance. This award may be a fairly significant event in the life of a tiny new company, but for a company like Yelp or Zynga that has hundreds of employees and has been often in the news, it is not a blip that is worth covering. Third, Wikipedia is not a place to promote a particular blog, event, news service, etc. If you are connected in any way with this award it would be considered a conflict of interest to try to raise its visibility by adding it to multiple Wikipedia articles, and WP:LINKSPAM to use it to generate traffic to the site by linking (and not hugely helpful to boot, because Wikipedia's outgoing links don't count towards google page rank). Even if you aren't, it does give undue prominence to a relatively obscure source. You could compare this, say, to having a favorite film critic - even a very insightful, notable one - and then adding his rating to the article about each of the films they reviewed. Wikipedia couldn't hope to list all 100+ critics that typically review each feature film, and to choose one out of the 100 would unbalance the information. It's great that you've found Wikipedia and want to contribute to our coverage of startup Internet companies. Making minor improvements to articles is often a good, fun way to help out while you learn the ropes. As a suggestion of information that *is* a little more appropriate, you could go down the list of companies receiving major venture capital rounds from techcrunch, venturebeat, or the VC firms' portfolio page, and add information to the funding / investor / executive team sections of those companies. You could do the same with product releases, mergers and acquisitions, or executives' backgrounds. For sources, try to mix it up a little bit - you can do a google news search, and choose the best articles from the most trustworthy publications. For example, a Wall Street Journal or Forbes Magazine article is usually a better source than Valleywag or Gawker, and the company's own page and press releases is somewhat below that for credibility. Hope this helps. - Wikidemon (talk) 15:17, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Marie flwr. You have new messages at WP:FEED#User:Marie_flwr.2FTechnology_500.
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Sorry, your reply got buried amongst all the other requests. In future, please feel free to send me a talkback message to my talk page just to let me know you've replied, so I can reply back with anything that you might want help with. Good luck and I hope you understand. Chevy monte carlo 11:29, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! Your feedback means much to me :) All the best Marie flwr (talk) 17:44, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Technology 500

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Clearly non-notable article, which relies heavily on "sponsored posts" primary sources, broken links and general junk sources. List is compiled by a lead database company.

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