User talk:GarthTolmie

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cambridge Innovation Capital


A tag has been placed on Cambridge Innovation Capital, 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. Tatupiplu'talk 10:04, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, GarthTolmie. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Cambridge Innovation Capital


The page Cambridge Innovation Capital has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:

"not a talk page"

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 331dot (talk) 09:03, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * If you wish to ask about why an article was deleted, you may ask the deleting administrator directly(see the deletion message above). Please read other stuff exists first; the existence of other similar articles does not automatically mean that yours can exist too.  As this is a volunteer project where people do what they can when they can, it is possible for inappropriate articles to go undetected, even for years.  We can only address what we know about.  I can say that any article that starts with " a company that backs world-leading life sciences and technology companies" will be deleted as promotional.  "World leading" is an opinion not suitable for a Wikipedia article.  Wikipedia articles should only summarize what independent reliable sources say about a subject. 331dot (talk) 09:06, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Reply
Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave one references, but it was not in-line so we can't tell what fact(s) it is supporting. Note that references should not be bare urls. Your ref was a local newspaper interview with the company, so not an independent source.
 * The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:
 * significant coverage in
 * independent,
 * multiple,
 * reliable,
 * secondary sources.
 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability. Without verified facts, it can't be notable. Even if your reference is taken at face value, it doesn't, for example, confirm the company investments you claim.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: that backs world-leading life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe's leading capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, they have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem. 
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. That's particularly the case when they are spamlinks to company websites.
 * For completeness, be aware that copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial, and text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
 * If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. I don't think your comment on my talk page is explicit on that issue, and since you have chosen to write about this company, we need to be absolutely clear if you have any conection to them.

As admin has already said, the fact that other articles have not been deleted doesn't help you, either they met the criteria or they should be deleted as well. See What about article x?. Also note that many articles would have been accepted before the notability guidelines were made stricter. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)