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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback

Hi! I wanted to give you a bit of feedback on your draft.

I did some editing for tone, as there are some portions of this that read as a little non-neutral. For example "where his manufacturing operations set industry standards for quality, delivery, cost and service as it became the fastest-growing, most profitable computer company in the world" came across as promotional and non-neutral. While this wasn't intentional, it's something that you have to be very careful about.

Also be careful of sourcing. There are a lot of primary sources in the article and while you can still use primary sources to back up basic information, they should be used sparingly. The reasons for this are ones of notability and verifiability. Notability cannot be established with a primary source regardless of the claims, as we need to be able to show where the claims are notable by way of secondary coverage. There's also the issue of verification, as we can't always guarantee that the claims are legit. For example, they could have either inflated the claims to be more major than they were or they could have been made up entirely. It's unfortunate to say, but it's happened on more than one occasion on here. Avoid sourcing in places like Genealogy.com, as we can't really verify the person who created the source (as anyone can sign up) and it's also primary.

Finally, be careful of what is added. For example, it's generally unnecessary to go into a lot of depth about a person's family unless there's a lot of non-primary coverage about them. For the most part biographies will just list how many children someone has, rather than all of their names and the names of the grandchildren and so on. Part of the reason for this is verification, as most sources won't cover a person's family in depth unless they're hugely major figures or they're covering a family in general (ie, like Bill & Melinda Gates's family or a historical family).

Now that aside, this does appear to be a notable person - the article just needs more independent coverage and a little tweaking, so good job on finding someone who wasn't already on Wikipedia! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 00:12, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Harvey Newquist II

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A tag has been placed on Harvey Newquist II requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Nomination of Harvey Newquist II for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Harvey Newquist II is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvey Newquist II until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. scope_creep (talk) 00:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing on Wikipedia , terms of service

Hello Wafflesandpancakes. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Eddie Newquist, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Wafflesandpancakes. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wafflesandpancakes|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:44, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I should have warned your properly as a nominator and explain COI editing rules (like Bri did here). When in doubt read this. Also you can ask me questions about paid editing, I have learned this theme the hard way. :) -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 04:14, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bri I'm sorry, this wasn't intentional, I have updated my page to reflect that I was paid for the Harvey Newquist page. Wafflesandpancakes (talk) 13:44, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid edits

This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Eddie Newquist for their contributions to Wikipedia.