User talk:Bizjournals

Your edits to Accenture (a.o.)
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COI
I noted in this comment you left that you are an employee of an "online business news media company". Yet you seem to be creating multiple articles for various business journals that all appear to be from the same company. If this is the company you work for, then This is a blatant violation of the wikipedia Conflict of interest policy. I know Beetstra asked you to read that policy already, so I suggest you go back and reread it a bit more thoroughly. In addition I strongly suggest you read Spam, in particular the How not to be a spammer section. Improbcat 18:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

-I apologize for that and will re-read and not making any further changes.

I have a question; there are several links on the American City Business Journals page that point to several of our business journals (which were pre-existing before I made any contributions). The information found on these pages (example "Columbus Business First") simply gives a quick snippet of information about the publication and the origin of this publication. If I'm providing the same factual information about our other papers presented in an identical fashion, then how come the Columbus Business First can remain yet if I contribute, I get penalized? Is it simply because I am an employee? How can I have our information about our 41 business journals placed in Wikipedia without getting penalized every time I try to do this? (FYI; our 41 print journals plus 1 strictly online journal totaling 42 are parented under our top domain; bizjournals. In other words, each of our local business journals is going to have a root domain of "bizjournals.com" within the URL.)  Not sure if that was also leading to the deletions or not.


 * Well for starters, since wikipedia is created through voluntary efforts, the other articles were probably simply not noticed or dealt with before this. Since you pointed them out I have put them up for Articles for Deletion so people can add their input on if they should be deleted or not. Please note that inclusion of one article does not affect inclusion of another.
 * One of the big problems is, as I said above, that anything you contribute on these subjects is going to suffer from a massive case of Conflict of interest. Also the How not to be a spammer bit specifically says:


 * "Don't make a new article for your own product or Web site. Most often, when a person creates a new article describing his or her own work, it's because the work is not yet well-known enough to have attracted anyone else's attention, much less verifiable sources. Articles of this sort are usually deleted. Wikipedia does indeed have articles about popular products and Web sites, but it is not acceptable to use Wikipedia to popularize them."


 * Thus you would be better served to wait and let the articles for the various journals be created or not as they become notable. If you have encyclopedic information to add to the articles (founding dates, editors, notable events/figures/etc.), then by all means go ahead and add that information. We aren't trying to tell you not to edit wikipedia and not to contribute. It is more a matter of trying to make sure that your edits are not done for the purpose of promoting your own company/products and are in line with wikipedia's policies and practices. Improbcat 19:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Deletion tags
Do not remove deletion tags from articles you have created, as you did with The Business Review. If you wish to contest the tag, the means to do so are noted in the deletion tag. Removal of tags without cause is considered vandalism, and doing so may result in your being blocked from editing wikipedia.

In addition, do no remove the Conflict of Interest tags unless you can prove that you do no have a conflict of interest with regards to the article. Improbcat 18:43, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Spam in New Mexico Business Weekly
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Spam in Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Spam in Birmingham Business Journal
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Spam in Boston Business Journal
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Spam in Buffalo Business First
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Spam in Charlotte Business Journal
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Spam in Business Courier
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July
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Pleas see WP:COI. DGG (talk) 18:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Spam in Austin Business Journal
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Spam in Baltimore Business Journal
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This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia.

Enough is enough; you've been warned. --Eyrian 18:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

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