User talk:LarryAucoin

July 2013
Hello, LarryAucoin. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Optimal IdM, 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.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * 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.

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. —S MALL JIM   19:17, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

August 2013
Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Optimal IdM, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. —S MALL JIM   10:33, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. —S MALL JIM   10:41, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Can you give me a single example of what is wrong with the page?


 * Sure - the company does not appear to have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources, as required by our notability guideline. I'll be listing it at WP:AFD shortly. Also, as explained above, the fact that you're closely involved with the company means that you're very unlikely to be able to write about it from the neutral point of view that we require: "At the start of 2012, Optimal IdM proudly announced...", for instance. —S MALL  JIM   10:55, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Optimal IdM for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Optimal IdM is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Optimal IdM until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. —S MALL JIM   11:05, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. I have added 4 new external references from quality organizations (Microsoft, Network World, Windows IT Pro, Yahoo). We will continue to update the page with more quality information. I would like to ask that you remove our page from consideration of deletion. Thanks in advance.