User talk:Daniel Malone

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CoinHELP
Although we do not make this as clear to new users as we should, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business listing directory or a place for companies to tell the world about themselves.

Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only, and accounts whose usernames are the names of companies or groups are not permitted. Account user pages are for the individual contributor to the encyclopedia to say something about themself in the context of their Wikipedia work. So there should be no User:CoinHELP; it was overlooked when posted in 2012, but your edit today turned it into a full-blown advertisement for the company, describing it as "a leading source" and listing all its services. Anything like that is deleted from Wikipedia at sight.

As you work for the company you have, from Wikipedia's point of view, a Conflict of interest and should carefully read that page and the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Briefly, you should not edit directly about your company, but may submit a draft for consideration. Note in particular that 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 in any edits where you have a COI.

It is not impossible for someone with a COI to write an acceptable article, but it is difficult, you are automatically thinking in terms of the story you want to tell, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. In particular, you should not be addressing a potential customer, but a general encyclopedia reader. Read User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard for more background.

Wikipedia is selective about subjects for articles. It does not want or expect to have articles about every company that exists. The inclusion test used is called Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Youtube, 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? See also WP:Notability (summary).

If you want to proceed, read WP:Your first article, collect the independent references necessary to show WP:Notability, and then click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will make a draft page where you can work on an article, with a link to send it, when complete, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will review it and either accept it or give you feedback.

In regard to Collectors Universe, comparisons to other articles are usually met with WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS; many of our nearly 5 million articles are less than satisfactory, but that is no reason for allowing more. However, CU is an article, not a user-page; it has independent references; and I see that it has been considerably cleaned up only today, probably by a who saw your reference to it on my talk page.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:06, 6 September 2015 (UTC)