User talk:Chris at GreenCoin Foundation

Conflict of interest
Please understand that regardless of your username, you need to read and abide by our conflict of interest guideline. Writing about subjects with which you are closely affiliated is possible, but it is difficult. If you have questions, please ask. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes; what says. In addition, I have blocked the other account,, since that name violates our user name policy. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:29, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I read the COI and I am the Pres. at the GreenCoin Foundation so obviously I need to work with you, or wait until someone else writes an entry. We are a not-for-profit and have an open-market carbon mitigation mechanism which is urgently and desperately needed at this time, or we are in seriously big trouble here. So I would appreciate the tiniest leniency here given the task at hand (reducing global carbon). Granted we are tiny though, and the wiki page does NOT serve as some sort of advertising ambition, but more simply an explanatory effort on exactly how the coin mechanism works and how it attempts to positively affect climate change. I am not paid by the Foundation (or anyone) nor would I ever pay anyone to write an entry about us. So I figured it would be easier to just do it myself. I will cease any additional edits until you respond. User:Chris at GreenCoin Foundation
 * I recommend reading our notability guideline. Not every company, person, artist, artwork, event, or website can have a Wikipedia article. This site is not a business directory, an index, or a collection of marketing brochures. The only subjects that can have articles are those with significant in-depth coverage from published, reliable, third-party sources. If your foundation does not yet have this kind of coverage from independent sources, then you should wait until a later time before creating (or requesting the creation of) an article. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 18:05, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) Chris, thank you so much for being willing to work with us. There are many organizations which come here attempting to help themselves and end up having their pages deleted and accounts blocked. More than 100,000 to date have gone down this road. A few, yourself included, are taking an approach of working with us to see what can be done. That is very much appreciated!
 * Wikipedia has a dizzying bureaucracy. Nobody is going to expect you to understand it, but navigating it will still be problematic. Regardless of the importance of your organization to the world, there are standards that must be met for inclusion here on Wikipedia. Take a few minutes and read through Notability (organizations and companies). This will give you a primer on understanding how Wikipedia makes decisions on inclusion of articles about organizations such as yours. Has your organization received press coverage somewhere? By that I mean something other than a press release penned by your organization and given to a media company, such as a newspaper. I did a casual search of Google and found no articles on your foundation or on GreenCoin. If an article is going to pass inclusion standards, we need references from secondary sources to support it. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

I encourage you to continue to develop User:Chris at GreenCoin Foundation/sandbox. Just try to use neutral language in doing so. I'll watch the page and help as I can. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:09, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your comments and your candidness is really refreshing. We do not have press yet though a better search is simply "GreenCoin" (note there is still some disambiguation from other "GreenCoins," and our primary homepage is www.grcoin.com . There was a couple of blogposts written about us, and we did not pen them (though one is an interview I suppose). I think from what I've heard from you I will, (1) familiarize myself in depth as to the "rules" you linked to so my expectations around the "dizzying bureaucracy" are well-grounded, (2) continue to develop the page as you suggested (learning all of these internal tags is fun, and this is my first wiki page), and (3) think about deployment at the time my World Changing Idea (lol) materializes, if ever, in a top-1,000,00 Alexa ranked news source. I would also, as I always do, encourage you or anyone you know who has a solar array to check this idea out, maybe it's the 'ABC' in me, but you get the carbon credits for free and there is no cost. Also, no solar at the wiki HQ?? Shame shame shame! ;) User:Chris at GreenCoin Foundation. Now I have to go learn how you get those talk pages and timestamps... --Chris at GreenCoin Foundation (talk) 18:56, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Chris, first off please note that if you add a " --~ " at the end of your post, it will automatically sign it, just as I have manually signed your post here for you. Blogs are not considered to be reliable sources and thus will not sustain notability (by Wikipedia standards) for your organization. I have no control of the wiki hq :) But, it might be a sort of Al Gore thing (green advocacy, with a decidedly un-green home!) :) Anyway, yes, please continue to develop the sandbox article. I've got it watchlisted and will offer feedback as I can. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:23, 19 November 2014 (UTC)