User talk:Adamscottreval

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Adamscottreval/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Adamscottreval/sandbox, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
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August 2018
Hello, I'm Kerry Raymond. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Mount Gravatt East, Queensland have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Kerry (talk) 14:23, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I don't understand why the update was deleted. I added addition information about the suburb? I consider myself to be a subject matter expert on the suburb and housing in the area, and I even used a citation? What about it was promotional? Wouldn't quoting the subject matter expert make the information more valid? Adamscottreval (talk) 01:01, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Kerry Raymond. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Mount Gravatt East, Queensland have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. ''The information you are adding appears to be similar to advertising for real estate purposes. The citation you provide is from a real estate agency in the area. Your user name appears to suggest you are connected with that real estate agency. If so, you are engaging in undisclosed paid editing contrary to the Wikipedia Terms of Service, you are contributing in a manner contrary to our Conflict of Interest policy and self citation, and in conflict of our policies about advertising and promotion. Kerry (talk) 12:04, 26 August 2018 (UTC)'' Kerry (talk) 12:04, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Kerry, yes, I am a real estate agent in the area. Hence why I feel that I am a subject matter expert on Housing. Nothing I said related to promoting me or my agency. I was just stating fact that are objective and neutral about housing in the area. Would you rather that someone with no knowledge of Housing add to the article? I don't get what your issue is? I will ask again more clearly, what specifically about what I wrote was promotional? Also yes I put a link to a blog we wrote about the suburb on my website, where else would you expect to find housing information specific to that local suburb than a real estate agent? I have removed the citation as this seems to be what you have a problem with. Adamscottreval (talk)


 * Wikipedia considers editors adding links to their own websites to be spam and will shoot them on sight. Wikipedia also considers editing subjects about which you have a close business interest in to be a conflict of interest. I'm afraid you seem to be a bit misinformed about how things work around here. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 05:37, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Dear improvement police, I give up, you win, it's too hard. Now I know why all the information on wikipedia is incomplete. Even sports edits I have made that were just stating facts you have deleted. You clearly prefer wikipedia to be broken and incomplete. Best of luck with that. Adamscottreval (talk) 09:42, 30 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Adam. I'm sorry you were feeling so discouraged. I don't know of the sporting edits you have commented on, this is only about the suburb articles. The Conflict of Interest policy noted above, WP:COI, clearly says that you should propose content about real estate in the suburbs covered by your business on the article talk page. Your edits to Mount Gravatt East, Queensland and Carindale, Queensland (at least) clearly have a marketing intent, based on the title you gave the reference link to your business website, and that link was broken anyway. They also used real estate marketing jargon and poor grammar. It would help if you can point us to significant news (ABC, Courier Mail, Brisbane Times, ...) or government websites that say things such as that the Mount Gravatt schools are the top schools in Brisbane/Queensland, first-home-buyers are buying and renovating post-war ex-Queensland Housing Commission homes in those suburbs, the majority of houses in Carindale have five or more bedrooms but are only 300m², and Sunnybank is filling up with Asians (refugees, immigrants who have become citizens, or Australian-born 2nd-7th generation descendants of immigrants?). Someone can help you to contribute relevant content without the unnecessary adjectives ("growing children" suggests there is another kind of children in Queensland who don't grow). You are also in a great position to be able to contribute high-quality photography of the suburbs and typical homes to Wikimedia Commons (note that the images uploaded must be provided with a free licence to be accepted on Commons). Some of these photographs could then be used to illustrate the articles, such as original and renovated street frontages of typical Housing Commission homes which could be used on the Commission article as well as the relevant suburb, and typical examples of different kinds of Queensland houses and other buildings. Thank you for trying to improve Wikipedia. Give me a call on my talk page or use ping to make sure you get my attention if you want me to help. --Scott Davis Talk 12:25, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

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