User talk:Geoffrey kaelin

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Geoffrey kaelin. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Eryc Taylor Dance Inc.


A tag has been placed on Eryc Taylor Dance 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 a clear copyright infringement of http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EKiQzCmQu04J:eryctaylordance.com/category.php%3Fid%3D2%26subid%3D10+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

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 "Click here to 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 removed 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. red dogsix (talk) 20:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Reply
Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. I deleted your article because
 * The article was a copyright violation. 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. 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.. Basically, you have to write in your own words
 * Although you provided some independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that he meets the notability guidelines, I'm not sure that all the sources meet the criteria of reliability. Sites that can be self-edited, are affiliated with the subject, are of unknown provenance or are just reporting what the subject says about himself are not adequate. You don't help yourself by not giving any wikilinks, eg Los Angeles, so I have no idea whether, for example, the venues he has performed at are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Articles about works can have a "Reception" section that gives a balanced view of opinions. Promoting a performer through cherry-picking positive reviews of his works is just spam. The rest of the article is probably OK in terms of tone.
 * Note the conflict of interest comment above.

If you recreate, check that your references are up to scratch, write in your own words and lose the spammy quotes. I'm unsure whether he meets our notability criteria because you haven't wikilinked anything, so that needs to be addressed too. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  05:49, 12 June 2015 (UTC)