User talk:Emvfr

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Hello, Emvfr, 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 SmartFocus, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Proposed deletion of SmartFocus


The article SmartFocus has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing General notability guideline and the more detailed Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you,

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:22, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Please note you were the page creator, not the owner. The page was deleted for the reasons explained above. The logo had nothing to do with it - rather, the sources present in the article did not suggest the subject is notable. If you think it is notable, you can make such argument at WP:REFUND. But please note that Wikipedia is not Yellow Pages, and not all businesses are encyclopedic. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:50, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

November 2015
Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you recently removed some content from SmartFocus with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   14:43, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Hello Emvfr. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. 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, and if it does not, 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, 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:. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Citobun (talk) 10:41, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I am not being compensated. I made edits to add more reliable sources and changed wording so it did not sound like an advertisement. Rebecca

re: SmartFocus reliable sources issue
Please note that the discussion of this topic is taking place at Articles for deletion/SmartFocus. Of course, adding better sources and describing them at the discussion page is one of the best courses of action. Please also make sure you've read and understood Notability (corporations). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 03:51, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:SmartFocus Corporate Logo.jpg
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