User talk:Legal Marketing

"Marketing" is just another euphemism for "advertising"/"promotion"
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Shipman & Goodwin LLP, you may be blocked from editing. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  19:32, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely because this username implies that you intend to commit marketing in Wikipedia, in violation of our standards of impartiality; and indeed you have already done so (see our blocking and username policies for more information). We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, but users are not allowed to edit with inappropriate usernames, and trolling or other disruptive behavior is not tolerated. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  19:32, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Orangemike, attempting to put up a page with historically content about the firm, not as advertising, sorry if user name sounded intentional I can change it. I was atttempting to mirror the pages for other firms historical content and since you have categories for this I thought it was accepted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Wildman_Palmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_%26_Cromwell
 * Smarmy and oleaginous blather like, "Shipman & Goodwin lawyers are recognized for their depth of knowledge and experience in a number of industry sectors including education, government, financial services, health care, nonprofit organizations, emerging and middle market companies, manufacturing, utilities, retail, software and information technology.... committed to diversity and inclusiveness within the firm, the legal profession and the community. The firm values the unique backgrounds and distinct contributions of all individuals; their deep commitment is reflected in efforts to promote understanding, advancement and empowerment" is not historical information, it is press kit bumfodder, and has no place in a reference work. It is not information, it is "promotion", a/k/a "marketing", a/k/a press-agentry, a/k/a spam. We have zero tolerance for spamming here. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  22:29, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * And the address of one of your practices in that choice of rename... Peridon (talk) 21:51, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

This was the plate marker of my first vehicle and I've used it elsewhere online in the past. I understand that the article needs to be rewritten. I will try to do it more in the concise factual manner you noted. Is there a way to have you review the article and not just ban it from the get-go?


 * The other concern discussed above was Conflict of interest. If the subject you intend to write about is one with which you have a professional relationship, it is a problem. Could you address that? UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 16:31, 18 December 2012 (UTC)


 * "our directory listings"???? Who am us, anyway?
 * That is to say, what is the entity whose directory listings you reference, and what is your relationship to that entity? --- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  21:20, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Shipman & Goodwin provides tuition assistance for me as a student at Central CT State University. I wanted to put up a page for them as a school project using information found online and in the CCSU directories.

Homework
If you really want to get on here, I'd advise reading these policies: WP:CORP and WP:GNG (corporate and general notability); WP:RS (reliable independent sources); WP:SPAM (we have a guideline WP:DUCK which says 'if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it IS a duck'); WP:NPOV (neutral point of view - how to be informative without going OTT); and WP:COI (writing about you and yours). There are hundreds more, but these are the main ones that cause the trouble for newcomers. People in marketing never seem to realise they are talking marketing-speak, people in churches and charities can't see why we are complaining about their enthusiasm, and so on. Also, please sign talk page posts with four ~ things. This puts your sig up and tells us who and when. (What you say should tell us what and why...) OK? You're not banned, by the way. That comes from a community discussion and can only be undone by another discussion. Blocking is done or undone by any admin (with certain exceptions), but there aren't vast differences in our reasonings. Peridon (talk) 13:04, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll add WP:COPYVIO as cut and paste is seldom OK here. Most of the free stuff is free because it's ancient, and only stuff licensed the same way we are is safe to bring in. Peridon (talk) 13:07, 19 December 2012 (UTC)