User talk:Colwiebe

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Hello, Colwiebe, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was User:Colwiebe/sandbox, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Kleuske (talk) 19:26, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
Hello Colwiebe. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User:Colwiebe/sandbox, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Colwiebe. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Kleuske (talk) 19:26, 10 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, I have been using the sandbox to learn how things work in Wikipedia editing mode and this evening I published it to show colleagues. Indeed I work for IntelliMagic, though promotion is not my job. I am in customer support and happened to be the only one at the company with a Wikipedia account.
 * I will read the info to add the proper to whichever page type is recommended.
 * My guess: this page likely is better off via the articles for creation that you mentioned.


 * Can we still review and can I edit the theoretical article via sandbox before switching to AfC? Colwiebe (talk) 20:20, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You are strongly discouraged to write about the firm you work for. As to the bit about showing your colleagues, maak dat de kat wijs. Kleuske (talk) 20:22, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Writing about a company you work for is considered a conflict of interest. Your interest in the company and how it appears on Wikipedia is in conflict with your responsibility as a Wikipedia editor to ensure that articles are written in a neutral and non-promotional way. You may use the template you posted here on your user page, which does not exist yet, or you may prefer to write a statement that more clearly says you work there but are not being paid specifically to edit Wikipedia. It's pretty much your choice how to disclose, but some sort of disclosure is required.
 * The sandbox is an acceptable place to develop an article and you can submit the article directly to AfC from there when you think it is ready for review. It's possible someone will move it to draft space after you submit it or you can move it there yourself.
 * A few words of advice before you do that: While photos can make a page look more attractive, they do nothing to help get a draft accepted. Images, such as logos, on a draft can also be a problem. The same goes for infoboxes - material in an infobox must be based on sourced information found in the body text of the article. Leave the infobox for later. Whether you are paid for promotion or not, you will have to avoid using promotional language in your draft. Currently there is a lot of promotional, non-neutral language in there. The connection with Rembrandt is currently unsourced and has no bearing on the notability of the company. For that matter, the chess team sponsorship announcement is not relevant for establishing notability.
 * Beware of using most existing articles as models for your draft. It's a sad but true statement that there are a lot of substandard articles already on Wikipedia that either need to be improved or, perhaps, deleted. Your draft needs to be better than the worst existing articles. Modeling based on an existing grade GA (Good Article) or FA (Featured Article) is okay, but your draft does not have to be at that level in every respect to be accepted.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 22:41, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Colwiebe/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Colwiebe/sandbox, 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. Bbb23 (talk) 22:41, 10 July 2023 (UTC)