User talk:RhiannonWooding

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Speedy deletion nomination of BE Offices


A tag has been placed on BE Offices 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 http://beoffices.com/our-company/about-us. 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.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. TheDragonFire (talk) 10:19, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from BE Offices, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Uncle Roy (talk) 10:37, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello RhiannonWooding. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to BE Offices. 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. 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, 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:RhiannonWooding. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. TheDragonFire (talk) 10:50, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Paid editing disclosure
You have admitted on several occasions, both on-wiki, and in your email to me, that you are editing Wikipedia as part of your paid role at BE Offices. You are therefore  required  by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation in a manner consistent with Wikipedia's paid-contribution disclosure policy. You suggest in your email that BE Offices "keeps having [articles about BE Offices] removed". I can't see any prior deletions in the deletion log, and your user account does not seem to have any prior record of having articles deleted. If you are using multiple accounts, you need to disclose that immediately. You say that you "not creating and editing this page for any financial gain". That is simply false. You are creating this article because you are being paid to do so as an employee of BE Offices. BE Offices is paying you to do so because they want to promote themselves. Please actually read our conflict of interest policy and then reply here when you've done that. TheDragonFire (talk) 11:08, 2 June 2017 (UTC)


 * You've stated on Talk:BE Offices that you are a "Marketing Executive", but in your second email you suggest that you have a "unpaid work placement" with BE Offices. To me, these statements seem to contradict each other. You are suggesting that a company big enough to pass our guideline for corporate notability has unpaid marketing executives. Wikipedia accounts cannot be deleted, so your statement that you've ensured that all your alternative accounts have been deleted is simply untrue. For transparency, I'd ask you to provide a list of all alternative accounts that you've used to edit Wikipedia. TheDragonFire (talk) 11:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry but I don't appreciate being spoken to like this at all as you making out myself to be a liar. You may do this in your spare time however this is most unhelpful and you are bringing my character into dispute. I asked for simple clarification on what was wrong with the page, tried to make the changes and now you are asking personal information about previous accounts that for data protection reason I have no reason to give out to you even if you are a moderator.
 * At no point have I said that I am a paid employee at BE Offices and yes you can have unpaid marketing executives so I would like you to stop going into my professional career as I find it rather off putting. I am trying to remain professional and keep this page running and would appreciate your help but I cannot do this when you judge my character as you are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RhiannonWooding (talk • contribs) 11:28, 2 June 2017 (UTC)


 * The article was initially tagged for deletion as a copyright infringement. Wikipedia cannot accept previously published material unless we receive appropriate proof that the content creator has authorised its use in Wikipedia (as explained in detail above). You removed some material, including the speedy deletion tag, and the speedy deletion tag was restored by a user named Uncle Roy because you had not addressed the whole issue. They also tagged the article under A7, meaning the article did not contain a credible claim of significance (put simply, it did not explain why the company is important enough to justify a Wikipedia article). You then improved the article a little more, to the point where it was not eligible for immediate deletion, and I removed the deletion tags. The article may still be deleted at Articles for deletion if it can be shown that it does not meet Wikipedia's guideline for corporate notability, but that deletion will need to be discussed over a 7 day period rather than happening immediately.


 * I cannot force you to reveal alternative accounts you've used to edit Wikipedia, but you need to be conscious of Wikipedia's alternative account policy, and ensure that you do not use alternative accounts deceptively or you risk being blocked. I'm sorry if you find me mentioning your professional career off putting, but please recognise that you have gone to a volunteer encyclopedia project and created an entry for your company. I needed to ensure that you were in compliance with our paid-contribution disclosure policy. In my experience, it is extremely common for COI editors to deny that they are being paid and then later admit to, and I needed to ensure that is not the case in this situation. If you truly are not being paid, I'll let that be.


 * The article still has several issues. If you look at the maintenance tag at the top, it explains the current issues, and provides links to policy pages explaining what needs to be fixed. If you need any assistance, you're very welcome to ask any questions, but I feel that I've already thrown quite a lot of links to policy and documentation at you, and I feel that if you read some of that most of your questions should be answered. TheDragonFire (talk) 12:23, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of BE Offices


A tag has been placed on BE Offices, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://beoffices.com/our-company/about-us. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites 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. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.
 * It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  14:18, 2 June 2017 (UTC)