User:Jmcgnh/COI-editor-advice

While it's allowed to edit on subjects where you have a conflict of interest, it's often very difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view.

So you've run into some snags.

It looks like your company is fairly new on the scene, so it may be rather difficult to find the notability references needed to satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for companies. Observe that we can't use: which narrows down the available options quite a bit. Some of these items are able to be used as sources for filling in information, but none of them help to establish notability - and notability is the very first step on the road to having an article.
 * interviews with the company's people
 * the company's own web site or publicity, or articles mainly based on press releases
 * "routine" business announcements such as rounds of funding or acquisitions (normally - some acquisitions get blown up in the press and thereby become notable)
 * business directory or registries
 * top "100" lists

I can't read the deleted pages, but if you're going to start over, I suggest starting with a very simple draft that has an opening statement like XYZ Company is an American manufacturer of electronic widgets, most notable for the auto-cromulizer. followed by a list of the references, three to four would be good, that represent the sort of in-depth, independent reporting on the company that form the basis for your notability argument. A draft like this can be brought to the Articles for Creation Help Desk for a summary review of whether these represent notability references (note, not "notable references", not "reliable sources") sufficient to base the article on. This work of assembling notability references is unavoidable, so there's no waste in taking this path. The agreement that these references establish notability at AFCHD is a permanent record that you can point to in future discussions.

Only after you have the set of notability references, does it make sense to begin to draft the body of the article. Summarize what those references say about the subject in as neutral a way as you can. You can use your own personal knowledge of the company to arrange things, but not to add anything to what the sources say. We realize that this is a very different writing task than most business writers are faced with every day, where message, promotion, and advocacy are more important. Here, those things pretty much must be avoided.

So, notability references and neutral point of view, that's the way to get an article started on Wikipedia. I hope this works out for you.


 * First use at User_talk:Ashikpeter1994.