User talk:Clkloiber

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Hello, Clkloiber, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Kevin Howard Inc, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Kevin Howard Inc


A tag has been placed on Kevin Howard Inc, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Help me!
Please help me with...setting up a new page for a business

Clkloiber (talk) 20:56, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Reply to your helpme, and your message on my talk page
You wrote: "How do I go about setting up an informational page about this brand. It's a new brand that is launching and we'd like to provide information to the public with a wikipedia page"

I'm afraid the short answer is: you don't. That's not what an encyclopedia is for.

Longer answer: start by reading the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. You will see that you are strongly discouraged from writing about your own business; and if you do, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4), and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising, to disclose your interest.

The next thing to explain is that Wikipedia is not a business listing directory and does not expect or want to have articles about every company that exists. Wikipedia is selective about subjects for articles. The criterion used is called Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about?

That has the advantage of being a more objective test than "Do we think it's important?" and also of ensuring that there are independent sources for the article. It is quite a tough test, and many worthy organizations, especially new ones, cannot pass it. That is not at all to their discredit, but it means they are not suitable subjects for a global encyclopedia.

Since yours is a new brand that is launching, it is most unlikely that it will have achieved the necessary amount of independent comment to establish notability, and to enable an article to be written based on independent views of the company, which is not just the story the company wants to tell the world.

I'm sorry to be discouraging, but Wikipedia is not for what you want to do. Even when your business is established, you would do better to wait until someone uninvolved finds it interesting enough to write about, but if you want to submit a draft for someone else to review, you can do that by via WP:Articles for creation, taking care to declare your COI. JohnCD (talk) 21:19, 28 September 2015 (UTC)