User talk:Businessboy123

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December 2021
Hello Businessboy123. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Businessboy123. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 11:11, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Please also be aware that "startups" rarely merit articles. Companies must already be established and relatively known by independent reliable sources to merit a Wikipedia article. Most sources related to startups are announcements of routine business activities like the commencement of operations or the raising of capital, which does not establish that a company meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. 331dot (talk) 11:14, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Response
Hey, thank you so much for reverting. And to give you a reply, no I don't have any direct stake in the company. I was planning to write more such articles only for well-established firms/startups. I was searching for other Indian players like Zomato, Swiggy, Flipkart etc. but their articles had already been covered on Wiki. So given that I love Finshots and its well reputed here in India, I gave it a shot. If you can help me improve this article, I've attached the correct references as well. Otherwise you can let me know the plan ahead.

Thank you

Businessboy123 (talk) 12:07, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have an indirect stake in the company? 331dot (talk) 12:14, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

No stake at all. By indirect stake I don't understand what you mean, I'm not related to the business, nor have I been paid for this.

Businessboy123 (talk) 12:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I have found that people often choose words for a reason. If you have no connection whatsoever to the business, okay. I will say that you will need to redo your upload of the company logo, as it must be licensed as fair use(and fair use images cannot be on commons). 331dot (talk) 12:30, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Understood. Should I delete the logo altogether? If you know how to, you can remove the logo, as I do not have rights to the logo. Thank you once again for patiently talking to me, hopefully I'll write more articles and get them check by you :) Businessboy123 (talk) 13:17, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The image will be addressed. If you would like others to examine your work before it is formally part of the encyclopedia, you may create and submit drafts at Articles for creation. 331dot (talk) 13:21, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Got it. Also, is there any way we can remove at least the notability violation? More than happy to improve it otherwise... Or should I add more sources to back it up?
 * It is a maintenance notice that an issue needs attention. The sources seem to all be reporting routine business activities(which is why the vast majority of startups do not typically merit articles). A Wikipedia article must not merely tell what a company does, it must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, and not based on any materials put out by the company or the mere reporting of its activities. 331dot (talk) 13:38, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * To expand on that, you don't need more sources, you need better sources, sources that give in depth coverage about the company(again, not based on any materials put out by the company, that includes staff interviews). If you were running the article through the AFC process as a draft, reviewers look for three such sources to accept a draft. 331dot (talk) 13:52, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Got it.

Finshots moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Finshots, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. MrsSnoozyTurtle 05:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Finshots
Hello, Businessboy123. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Finshots, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:02, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Finshots


Hello, Businessboy123. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Finshots".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 05:57, 29 June 2022 (UTC)