User talk:Carolynlowe

November 2009
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Carolyn Lowe, Consultant

 * http://.cloweassociates.com
 * Accounts

This is the only warning you will receive. Your recent insertion of spam, commercial content, and/or links is prohibited under policy. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia to advertise you will be blocked from editing. If you are affiliated with 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 or creating 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; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. --Hu12 (talk) 18:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Hu12, I wanted to find out how I can contribute without a conflict of interest. I was researching some things on Wikipedia and found out of date information. I started to update with more recent data from DisplaySearch, a research company I used while I was at Dell. I've noticed that all my edits are marked as spam or promotional. I am not an employee of DisplaySearch - I am just trying to improve the content that's already there by adding credible sources such as either DisplaySearch or other sources like ZDNet or the New York Times. Please help me in finding the best way to contribute without creating flags in Wikipedia. Thank you.


 * Hi Carolyn. PMFJI. It may be that people will Google "Carolyn Lowe DisplaySearch", quickly find that you used to work there, and presume you still do - a lot of Wikipedia editors these days are (perhaps rightly, perhaps not) pretty much inclined to start with a presumption of guilt when it comes to spamming! So, it might be worthwhile actually mentioning in your edit summary "I am not a DisplaySearch employee", or something like that - just an idea.
 * Regarding your edits specifically to digital signage, personally I think the DisplaySearch figures are quite relevant, but it does need spelling out why they are relevant - that the company explicitly linked rising sales of large displays to increasing out-of-home use. Barnabypage (talk) 00:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Barnabypage, Thanks for the advice. I'll work on improving my entries to be in line with good Wikipedia standards. This is all new to me, and I'm just trying to contribute information. Carolynlowe (talk) 03:08, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

At this point it it's best to stay away from editing or linking to topics which you are directly related. Some things to keep in mind before proceding further;
 * SPAM
 * Advertisements masquerading as articles
 * External link spamming
 * Citation spamming
 * Source soliciting
 * External links policy
 * Advertising and conflicts of interest
 * Conflict of interest
 * Editors who have a conflict of interest
 * Accounts used for promotion
 * Law Of Unintended Consequences
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Wikipedia is not a repository for links
 * Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising
 * BLOCK
 * Persistent spamming
 * Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization in apparent violation of Conflict of interest or anti-spam guidelines.

--Hu12 (talk) 19:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Carolynlowe/DisplaySearch


A tag has been placed on User:Carolynlowe/DisplaySearch, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Legacypac (talk) 05:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC)