User talk:Jennabauer

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August 2012
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Piper Jaffray. 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. SwisterTwister  talk  18:55, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

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Although I assume you had the best intentions, adding content such as the following is considered advertising:

"Piper Jaffray Investment Management LLC manages equity and fixed income investments for a variety of clients, offering corporate cash management, municipality cash management, municipal opportunity funds and merchant banking."

Nearly all of the content you added promoted the subject rather than adding significant details for a Wikipedia article. Additionally, the content you add must be supported by sources, preferably by third-party sources. Also, several of the links you added with this edit were excessive, promotional and seemed to be small mentions. An example is the Business Week link you added, the company is only mentioned three times (all of them relating to Gene Munster's career at Piper Jaffray) therefore it is a small mention. Although the news article mentioning Gene Munster would be slightly relevant, the link would be more appropriate at Gene Munster's article. Please note that the external links section should contain no more than 4 to 5 relevant links, a large amount of links may overwhelm the article. Generally, the only acceptable links are official website(s) and other encyclopedia appropriate links. If useful, change the links to references rather than an "External links" section entry. If you need help with referencing, visit Referencing for beginners. If you weren't intending to write the content as promotional, I suggest visiting Neutral point of view and Writing better articles. If you need additional help, visit your welcome links or contact me at my talk page. SwisterTwister  talk  02:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Piper Jaffray headquarters lobby.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Piper Jaffray headquarters lobby.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that this media item is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails the first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media item could be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media item is not replaceable, please:


 * 1) Go to the file description page and edit it to add, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
 * 2) On the file discussion page, write the reason why this media item is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media item by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by creating new media yourself (for example, by taking your own photograph of the subject).

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on [ this link]. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 02:56, 3 December 2012 (UTC)