User talk:CameraManPBP

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Possible Conflict of Interest on Plastic Bat Productions
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
 * and you must always:
 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. -- Gwguffey (talk) 01:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Plastic Bat Productions
A tag has been placed on Plastic Bat Productions requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- Gwguffey (talk) 02:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Your message about your username, conflict of interest and Plastic Bat Productions
Hi, CameraManPBP. I'm glad to hear your thoughts on your username and it shouldn't be an issue. Just be aware that another editor may make the same association about the "PBP" and express a concern relative to contribution related to Plastic Bat Productions. As for your statements about the neutrality of the Plastic Bat Productions article, I'm guessing that you checked out the links for the guideline on conflict of interest and the policy on neutral point of view and you feel confident about being in line with those. So, those concerns are easily dealt with. At any point in your editing, you can always ask for another editor to take a look at your edits to get a second opinion on COI or NPOV (those are the common abbreviations) concerns or by discussing edits on the talk page that every article has.

Now for the more difficult issue &mdash; establishing the notability of Plastic Bat Productions. In order for an topic to have an article included in Wikipedia, it must be established that the topic meets the criteria listed in Notability. Notice in the first paragraph of that page it says that "notability" is different than "fame", "importance", or "popularity". Basically, there must have been coverage of Plastic Bat Productions by multiple reliable third party sources that are independent of the topic. So, have there been media coverage of the company? If so, then the notability can be established. When I do a regular google search for "Plastic Bat Productions", the hits that come back are the company's website and forum postings, so those aren't going to work. So, then I move on to searching google news and find zero hits on the company. So, at this point it appears that there has been no independent coverage of the company by the media (examples would be books, television documentaries, full-length featured newspaper articles from large circulation newspapers, full-length magazine reviews and criticism). If some can be sourced, then great. Otherwise, no matter how technically well written and neutral the article is, it won't pass the notability criteria and will be repeatedly deleted. For more info on ways to establish notability, take a look in Notability (organizations and companies) which specifies the guidelines for inclusion for companies. Another way would be to establish that Plastic Bat Productions has produced a film that meets the criteria for inclusion of films (see Notability (films)). You could also stop by WikiProject Films to chat with other editors you could be of more assistance to you with this topic.

Anyway, I hope this helps. Let me if anything doesn't make sense. -- Gwguffey (talk) 01:57, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm glad to have helped. Should you decide at any point that you would like a change of username, the info on how to do that is available at Changing username. Best wishes.


 * PS: A great place to get more help and ask questions is the New contributor's help page. You should check it out. Lot's of helpful people there that can be of assistance. -- Gwguffey (talk) 22:33, 9 May 2008 (UTC)