User talk:BubbleUpDigitalMarketing

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "BubbleUpDigitalMarketing", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because The username looks like it represents a company engaged in promotion. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Edison (talk) 16:25, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I note there is a digital marketing firm named "BubbleUp:" . A company name is not an acceptable user name. An individual at a company would be an acceptable user name, (Such as "Jim at Acme Co") but edits would still have to comply with policies limiting conflict of interest edits or promotional edits. Edison (talk) 16:36, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, BubbleUpDigitalMarketing, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Stephanie Styles, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason. Any article about a living person must provide inline references to reliable sources to verify all statements about the person.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Proposed deletion of Stephanie Styles


The article Stephanie Styles has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Edison (talk) 16:37, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I added some refs and removed the proposed deletion. I see that you have added two sources to the reference list. That is not the right way to do it. When you add an item to the ref list, the reader has no way of knowing what statement it verifies. Instead, add an inline reference for each, as i did. See Citing sources. You should not be editing as an apparent company account, as i stated earlier on this talk page. If you are part of a PR firm, and are editing the article on behalf of a client, that is a conflict of interest. You should instead identify yourself as such, and present proposed additions on the article's talk page, where others with no conflict of interest can add them. Please read Conflict of interest before doing any further edits. Edison (talk) 17:32, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey Edison! We are not a PR firm. We build websites for all kinds of people (Luke Bryan, Aerosmith, KISS etc), and we provide e-commerce stores as well as content management services. We also provide copy writing. The article about Stephanie Styles is a copy writing job. I don't see a conflict of interest here; it's the same as writing content on their website. That being said, I can change my user name. Would you advise that? Thank you for adding references and correcting me on how to do it myself. I've been a journalist for 15 years but this is my first Wikipedia attempt. Please let me know what I need to do to get this page up and running. Kim


 * I have blocked this account for two reasons. Firstly, company names as user names are considered promotional and are prohibited by the username policy. Secondly, the username implies shared use, something explicitly not permitted. Wikipedia accounts are for individuals, not for groups or corportations.
 * Furthermore, you should take a look at the terms of use regarding paid contributions. There's a difference between being hired to write content on someone's website and being hired to write it on Wikipedia, and to be blunt, I would have thought the difference would be covered in Journalistic Ethics 101. It's somewhat frightening to see a journalist of 15 years claim ignorance here. Also, the subject's own website is not a reliable source; you should have provided links to the original articles, not to the copyright violations on Styles' website.
 * If you think you were blocked in error, you can request the block to be lifted by adding  on this page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Huon (talk) 20:14, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was the one who provided convenience links to the copies of the articles at Style's website. I removed the convenience links, and Huon added direct links to the publications as is appropriate. Edison (talk) 20:44, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

talk Huon, I think that comment about Journalistic Ethics is unfair and uncalled for. I freelanced for 15 years - hired to write articles for various publications, and paid to do so. I wrote the article about Stephanie Styles because they wanted a professional writer to do it, and then I submitted it to Wikipedia - which I have now discovered is a no no. Also, I didn't cite Styles' website as a source, but it looks like Edison cleared that up. I'd like to know how to move forward on this.


 * Are you honestly saying that you would have seen nothing wrong with being paid by the subject of a newspaper article you wrote? No conflict of interest? Huon (talk) 17:54, 8 October 2014 (UTC)