User talk:Mkhauer

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Würth Industry North America


A tag has been placed on Draft:Würth Industry North America requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.wurthindustry.com/en/wina/startseite/index.php. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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December 2019
Hello Mkhauer. The nature of your edits 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

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:Mkhauer. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 18:16, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi Praxidicae - I work for Wurth Industry. We are a part of a huge global organization called Würth Group. We would like to create our own Wikipedia page because since the Würth Group is such a large and complex company (we have several different product lines, which dramatically differentiate each operating company) we often find that potential employees, customers, or suppliers are confused about who we are, what we sell, and where we are located. This is purely factual information and is not meant to promote our company in any way. The information I included is simply that we are a part of the Würth group, what we sell and where we are located. Can you please advise what more is required for this article to be published. Since the information is from our website - I've already completed releasing the text under a compatible license for Wikipedia. Thank you, Mkhauer (talk) 18:57, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * You need to disclose as required above. As far as the release, it would not change anything as the content is unsuitable to use on Wikipedia regardless of the license. Content must be based on what independent reliable sources say, not the subject. Praxidicae (talk) 19:12, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

So as someone who works here, I am not able to publish this article? Mkhauer (talk) 19:58, 16 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Not every company that exists is entitled to have a Wikipedia article. A company must be notable - as Wikipedia defines notability - to be considered worthy of inclusion. This means the company must have already accumulated significant in-depth coverage from multiple reliable and independent sources. Wikipedia has no interest in what a company wants to say about itself, so primary sources like the company's own website won't count towards establishing it as notable. Anything else company-authored, like press releases or social media, will not establish notability either.
 * It is not prohibited, but it will be very difficult for someone in your position - referred to here as a conflict of interest - to successfully write an article about your own company. As an involved party, you are not an objective judge of your own company's notability. Basically, you would have to forget everything you knew about the company and write an article based only on what reliable third parties have chosen to publish about it. You could not rely on primary or self-published sources, nor any of your own unpublished personal knowledge or experience. Also, because you are paid by the company, you would have to fully understand and comply with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure policy.
 * If an article about your company is accepted, please be aware that the company has no right of ownership or editorial control over its content. With rare exception, anyone can edit an article at any time, and the contents may and often do change substantially over time. Consensus is Wikipedia's fundamental editorial model, with a process of civil discussion and compromise on the article talk page. Various dispute resolution mechanisms are available whenever disagreements cannot be resolved through talk page discussion.
 * So, in answer to your question - yes, you are allowed to write about your company, but the expectations of you are formidable. If you wish to make the attempt, I would advise that you use the guide entitled Your first article and use the WP:Article wizard to begin a draft article. Then you can submit it for review and revision by uninvolved editors. Good luck. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:12, 16 December 2019 (UTC)