User talk:Lder1995

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Thanks for the welcome!
Dear Possibly,

Thanks for reaching out and for the help page recommendations! I apologize if I violated any of Wikipedia's guidelines, I'm pretty familiar with MediaWiki, but a bit less so with this platform.

I saw that you pulled down the Notable Digital Storefronts section of my StackCommerce page because it didn't have any references. Is it alright if the storefronts themselves are the reference? There aren't really any press releases on these partnerships, but each shop has a "Powered by StackCommerce" signifier at the bottom of a given page. ie) https://shop.mashable.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=1741279126&utm_term=mashable%20shop&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsLWDBhCmARIsAPSL3_13atuHBSexzL8p2AJDbtKFGxPPLE6lAW9pUBn5occP_LpjofILjtoaAkbXEALw_wcB

Have a good one!

Lder1995 (talk) 02:27, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * They make it look more like an ad than it already is. Do you have any conflict of interest here? I.e. do you know anyone at the company, are you being paid to create the article etc? Thanks. --- Possibly (talk) 02:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No, I've just been burned by Shopify a couple of times (damaged/broken products, sub-par resources to correct those mistakes, etc) and want other companies in the industry to have more visibility. I was planning on spinning up a SnowCommerce page next. Lder1995 (talk) 03:01, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for clarifying that. The list you had might be ok, but I find that kind of stuff to be promotional. The bulletproof way to say things like that is "Company X includes among its customers company AA, company BB and company CC", where AA, BB and CC are followed by some kind of reasonable independent source. Also, never use a source that comes from presswire.com or newswire.com. They are company spam. --- Possibly (talk) 03:09, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * PS: regarding Mediawiki, we are using it now as we type and post. --- Possibly (talk) 03:11, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries and thanks for the heads up! And yeah, the icon on the bottom right of the page tipped me off, lol. =] Lder1995 (talk) 03:20, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of StackCommerce for deletion
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April 2021
Hello Lder1995. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to StackCommerce, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Lder1995. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message.  scope_creep Talk  13:20, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello Scope Page. As mentioned in my conversation with the user Possibly earlier, I'm not being paid or indirectly compensated to create this page nor do I have a financial stake in StackCommerce. Lder1995 (talk) 14:52, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but how did you come to create it, if I may ask?   scope_creep Talk  14:56, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * As mentioned above, I've had poor experiences with the Shopify platform and find Wikipedia's coverage of e-commerce businesses to be somewhat lacking. I merely want to present a greater snapshot of this industry on Wikipedia so that Shopify comes off as less of a monolith, which is how I feel it's currently presented. If it seems like I'm going to bat rather hard to keep the StackCommerce page up, that's because I put a good deal of time into researching the company and sourcing my findings. I'd prefer it if that time not go to waste and am open to suggests any changes I can make so that the page can remain up. Lder1995 (talk) 15:08, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yip, I completely understand. I know exactly what your talking about and see where your coming from. Your approach is entirely rationale. Focusing on the customer number may be an approach that doesn't assert ncorp, may be one way of doing it. Number always seem to count in these things.    scope_creep Talk  15:16, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip! - Lder1995 (talk) 15:27, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

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