User talk:John zsl

Hi, I have come across you by way of ZSL, an article which you have vandalised by replacing a disambiguation page with information about your company. Please be aware that editing Wikipedia on behalf of your company is a conflict of interest and is not desirable here. John Vandenberg 01:39, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Zylog Systems Limited
An editor has nominated Zylog Systems Limited, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 18:55, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Reply
Let me clear up that, while I did not nominate ZSL for deletion, I did comment that it should be deleted as a non notable company. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, but it does have guidelines. Any article about a company must adhere to these policies. In particular, I would point you to this statement: "A notable topic has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works that are reliable and independent of the subject." Your article on ZSL failed that test and was deleted as a result. If you want your article to be accepted you need to find some publications that mention and discuss it. That will help you assert notability. Now, you are also going to have a very hard time getting an article through because of the conflict of interest issues. I'm guessing by your user name that you have a vested interest in this company. As a result, you should probably not be the one to make an article unles you can remain neutral.

If you really want the article to stay, then start making edits on other topics. Basically, become a part of the Wikipedia community. That will show people that you are not just interested in your article. Single purpose accounts (editing one article) are frowned upon. If editors see your work on other topics, they might be more inclined to allow the article to stay. For the time being, I recommend keeping any information you have about ZSL on your user page. Wait a few months and establish yourself in the community. In the mean time, work on rewriting the article and sourcing it properly. Any information you put in the article must be verified by independent sources (i.e. not company publications). -- Cy ru s      An dir on   12:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)