User talk:JeanNolte

June 2015
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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Mean as custard (talk) 11:05, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Mean as custard (talk) 11:07, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising. Mean as custard (talk) 11:24, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

JeanNolte - I have made changes to our company page but they are being reverted. The content on the page is outdated so I need to update it. My changes are being reverted and I am notified to not post promotional content and this is NOT what I am trying to do. Please advise me on what content is being perceived as promotional???


 * Hi Jean. Text like, "As a truly African company employing over 5000 people in various sectors, the Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group is rooted in, and committed to Africa, and all her people" reads as if it comes straight from the company's website. We don't write articles from the company's point of view and all content must be verifiable. --Neil N  talk to me 12:22, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, JeanNolte. 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. Neil N  talk to me 12:15, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing, because it is clear that you are here not to contribute to building the encyclopedia, but to use Wikipedia for promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia policy, as has been made clear to you in several messages. I have no reason to doubt that you came here in good faith, thinking that Wikipedia was a suitable medium for telling the world what a good job your business is doing, but I'm afraid if so then you misunderstood the nature of Wikipedia. It is not a marketing tool. As for asking "advise me on what content is being perceived as promotional", if you can write substantial chunks of text containing such language as "relentless in its pursuit of creating a sustainable future for all", "actively engaged in uplifting the lives of its people, its consumers and society, wherever it operates", and so on, and you really sincerely cannot see how that is promotional, then it is difficult to know where to start explaining it to you. That is pure and unadulterated marketing-speak. (I can only assume that, like many people who work in marketing/PR/whatever-you-call-your-particular-subgenre-of-it, you are so used to reading and writing marketing speak every day that you have become desensitised to it, and cannot see it when it is right in front of you.) If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:28, 12 June 2015 (UTC)