User talk:Cannonball01

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Hello Cannonball01 and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Technopat (talk) 00:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you for your advice and I appreciate you taking the time to offer help. I am a little confused though, as I didn't think my contributions would convene any rules as they are informative and true. I understand the 'conflict of interest' point of view, but I merely added my company to an existing list of pharmaceutical suppliers and added extra information to an existing article regarding Isosorbide Dinitrate and Mag Sulfate. The second two updates are, again, factually correct and state that we have been granted the Marketing Authorisation for these products in the UK, by the MHRA. If a MA product exists on the market, then no other supplier should be used, as only the Authorised product should be available on the market. In my opinion, my comments were in line with the style of the original article. Please could somebody advise me on the best way to continue as I was hoping to make reference to the 3 other products we have MAs for...... Many thanks Cannonball01 (talk) 08:33, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Cannonball101, hi. The concern raised by other editors is that your contributions could be considered SPAM.  The list of pharmaceutical manufacturers only contains wikilinks to articles or suggested articles on wikipedia, not links to the websites of the company's themselves.  A subtle difference I know but a difference all the same, do it for Torbay and before you know it the whole list is just a web directory of External links.
 * I think the other two edits were considered even more spammish. I don't think it's applicable to list the licence holder for Mag Sulfate (still can't get used to spelling it with an F rather than PH) in every country in any event, and were it applicable, to stick that sentence into the lead section of the article which is designed to be an introduction into the article is still inappropriate.  Don't forget this is the Englansh language wiki not an English wiki so the readers and editors are a global community.  What you added was undoubtedly correct but inappropriate for the article and the readership, a marketing authorisation in a particular country is irrelevant to any other country.
 * As you say you understand the conflict of interest point, I won't comment on that but my answer to your final question would be just don't do it. It's an area you have some interest in so why not consider editing the article on the MHRA and how marketing authorisation in the UK works, but don't try and place any links or references to your own company. NtheP (talk) 09:29, 3 June 2013 (UTC)