User talk:KeiraHarvey

Help me!
Please help me with... setting up a page for the company i work for. I find it confusing on how to set up a page for the company of which i am a graphic designer. We are currently in the middle of a rebrand, so we want it to be clear that our old company is linked to our new company. I Do not want this page for advertisement, but just to show who the company are.

KeiraHarvey (talk) 13:20, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Hi Keira, for starters, you are strongly discouraged from creating a page for the company you work for. Wikipedia has strict conflict of interest guidelines, and also a clear policies about paid editing - see below for more information. Please read through these and make sure you are abiding by them, or you could be banned from editing here.

Secondly, a company does not get a wikipedia article just because it exists. Wikipedia works by including what has been reported in reliable, independent, secondary sources, so the company would need to meet our notability requirements and have been written about by independent sources in order for an article to be included.

Finally, you could consider creating a draft which you can work on over time and have reviewed by experienced editors, which will have a much higher chance of being included in the encyclopedia at some point, but there is still no guarantee. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 02:18, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest guidelines
Hello, KeiraHarvey. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 02:18, 3 October 2017 (UTC)