User talk:Amykocot

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Spam
Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thanks. TheGrappler 05:57, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. Yankees76 17:14, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule on. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from further editing. Yankees76 20:23, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Yankees76 22:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for appearing to use Wikipedia incorrectly, I was simply trying to add this information to the Encyclopedia. Can someone point me in the right direction for doing so? I looked at other additions for hints, but am striking out...

Although I do have verifiable sources for everything posted, I simply took down any information that may be construed as a fact without appropriate backing.

If you look at other company articles on Wikipedia, they basically do the same thing I was trying to do with our sites - just trying to inform people about this organization. What is keeping these other companies up on Wikipedia?


 * Both articles that you seem to be the only persn working on are proposed to be deleted. I would assume that that both entries are vanity articles and your only purpose here is to spam Wikipedia by adding links that appear to promote products by pointing to obscure or not particularly relevant commercial sites. Vanity articles that make no plausible claim of notability are usually deleted shortly after creation. It might be a good idea to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia policies before you continue. Yankees76 13:40, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[I am trying to contribute information regarding companies I am involved with and am having trouble doing so because of certain restrictions. I have read Wikipedia’s usage guidelines, however, cannot figure out why my pages are under negative scrutiny. I am happy to comply with any rules that I am so far apparently not following if someone could point me in the right direction. While going through all the rules, I came across the below specifics that I feel apply the most. I am not trying to publish a “vanity” article, but because I am a newbie, I am having trouble with this. Please let me know how I can fix this as I would like to have these pages remain on Wikipedia! Thank you.

“While an article about a little-known company, say, should not automatically be taken as a vanity article, it is preferable for the initial author not to be an owner, employee of, or investor in the company”

“An article should not be dismissed as "vanity" simply because the subject is not famous.”

“The key rule is to not write about yourself, nor about the things you've done or created. If they are encyclopedic, somebody else will notice them and write an article about them.”

“If there is nothing particularly offensive about the page, please be kind to the newbie. Suggestion: before beginning any deletion procedures on a vanity article, it is sometimes found that by simply politely informing the creator of the article that this appears to be a vanity article, and by pointing him or her to this page first, that the author him or her self will sometimes easily agree to the deletion him or herself, thus saving much waste of time and energy on the parts of all concerned parties.”]


 * Wikipedia is neutral point of view. Your first line says it all "companies I am involved with". I can see clearly now why both articles are AfD. Yankees76 21:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

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How to use Wikipedia without getting loads of scary messages
Hi Amykocot, I'm sorry your first month on Wikipedia hasn't been such a great success. Unfortunately it looks like nobody presented you with a wecome message that contains lots of the stuff you need to survive editing (it can be very stressful on here...); I know this is well overdue but I also hope that it isn't too late :-)

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

One of the things you need to be aware of is the "spamming" policy. The two company articles you produced weren't an evil act, but they were quite small and don't really belong in an encyclopedia. The phrase that gets used to describe that is "non-notable". There's more information on what gets considered a notable company at WP:CORP. What really annoyed people a lot was when you started putting external links to those companies at a whole bunch of other articles. That's seen as blatant advertising and people got quite fed up with it. That's why, quite early on, people gave you a warning message linked to WP:SPAM. There's also a policy called WP:NPOV - it means presenting information from a "neutral point of view". Things that look like ads go against NPOV, that's why it can be really hard to write about businesses here.

However, and this probably can't be said loudly enough, ''' please come back, despite all the scary messages, we actually really want you! '''

You sound, according to your message, like you really want to add information to the Wikipedia. That's great! We really need that! But until you get a feel for how things work here, try to avoid writing about small companies and people you are closely involved with. If you do want to write about Geary and Speak Inc, the best place to do it is at the business directory wiki, rather than here. But there are some things where we need your help! You sound like you come from California - we have a really good and very busy California department you can join, and there's lots of work you can help with!


 * Do you have a digital camera? These California articles need some photos! This page explains how to add them.
 * Here's some short articles about places in California, help out by expanding their articles with more information!
 * Here's some short articles about some random California-related things and people, help us improve these articles by putting in more information!
 * Here's some short articles about politicians from California, help out by doing some more research on them and including the information in their articles!
 * Do you want some other things to do? Maybe you would like some help or advice from other users in the area? These are some "WikiProjects" that would love to hear from you!
 * WikiProject California
 * WikiProject Santa Barbara County
 * WikiProject Santa Barbara County

Above all, if you get stuck or don't know what you are expected to do, then come over to my talk page (User talk:TheGrappler) and leave a message, or do the same to another Wikipedian, or even just write on your talk page, and someone will come over and help out.

Good luck, and please don't be scared off!

TheGrappler 15:46, 12 July 2006 (UTC)