User talk:Pointengineering

Articles for Creation submission
Thank you for your submission to AfC. However, I'd like to draw your attention to a number of policies and guidelines here at Wikipedia. First, your username, which would appear to be created entirely for promotional purposes, as it matches the very name of the company you submitted to AfC. Wikipedia is not somewhere to promote a company or product, it is an encyclopedia, and your username is in violation of the policy. Second, is Wikipedia's conflict of interest guide, which says that you should not create, or edit, any article about yourself, your company, products, friends, or family, as you would be unable to edit neutrally. Neutrality is one of the core policies of Wikipedia, as is verifiability. In addition, and quite importantly, is the copyright policy, which disallows any submission that was taken from another source, either in part, or in entirety. I suspect that your submission is a copy/paste word-for-word, from your company's material, due to the format it was submitted in, the layout, the promotional tone, and the non-encyclopedic wording and phrasing. However, because the website for the company has an expired security certificate (since 2006), I will not risk vising the site, as both IE and Firefox warn me about the possible insecurity of the site. If you did take the information and paste it from your company's site, without understanding Wikipedia's policies, I would urge you to remove all of the text from your submission, and instead, write a brief introduction (in your own words) about why the company is notable. Please review the criteria for company notability, to see if your company even meets these criteria. Then, provide valid, reliable, third-party sources (news articles, magazine articles, etc.) to verify the notability. Additionally, I'd suggest that you choose a new user name, and refrain from editing the article, should it be approved. Thanks! Ariel ♥  Gold  14:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)