User talk:Rlindsayvfc

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Hello, Rlindsayvfc, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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 * Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Girth Summit  (blether) 14:53, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Further note
Hi - the above is a templated message - your username is policy-compliant, and you have been open about your conflict of interest, so you're all good on those points. The administrator's noticeboard isn't the place to look for help with creating an article - you could try the WP:TEAHOUSE, but rather than use volunteers' time, please do some reading yourself to find out how to write an article. Here are some pages that will help you: Thanks, Girth Summit  (blether)  14:57, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:NCORP documents the notability requirements that your article will need to pass to be accepted.
 * WP:FIRST gives general advice on how to write your first article.
 * WP:AfC is the process by which you should create an article about a subject you are connected with.
 * Oh, wow - I just saw the draft you've written. That is an outright advert, and will not be accepted. It needs to be completely rewritten. Find whatever independent secondary sources exist (not your website, not press releases - just stuff that other people have written about you without your involvement) and summarise what those articles say about you. If there isn't enough to write an article, you won't be able to write one I'm afraid. Girth Summit  (blether)  15:01, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I've tagged the draft for speedy deletion. Not only is it blatant advertising, which is not what Wikipedia is for, but it is also a copyright violation from VfC's own web site, which is never acceptable in any part of Wikipedia under any circumstances.  --Finngall talk  15:27, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'd missed the copyvio part. Rlindsayvfc, I was prepared to give you a chance to rework the draft, since you've been open about who you are and what you're trying to do, but I couldn't ignore a copyright violation once it had been drawn to my attention, so I've deleted the draft. Girth Summit  (blether)  15:46, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi - I received your e-mails; I hope you don't mind if I reply here, I don't generally enter into e-mail correspondence with editors whom I do not know. I appreciate that you were not trying to break the rules, and that you made an honest mistake; I also recognise that you had changed a few things from the text on your website. Our WP:COPYVIO policy requires that material be entirely in your own words however - close paraphrasing is not permitted, and we take a zero-tolerance approach to copyright-infringing content, we do not give people time to fix it - it is deleted as soon as it is discovered.
 * Please let me reiterate that nothing even remotely like the text that was in that draft will be accepted as an article. I repeat my advice that you find any entirely independent reliable sources you can find covering your organisation, and summarise what they say about you, and leave it at that.
 * For details on how to use talk pages to communicate with other editors, see WP:TPG. Girth Summit  (blether)  16:12, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, after seeing your note over at the administrator's noticeboard, where you stated you "would like to make a Wikipedia page to make our program more accessible to potential interns", I feel the need to reiterate that this is not the purpose of Wikipedia. We don't have "pages", we have articles on subjects which have been the subject of independent coverage by reliable sources.  We do not care what the subject of an article has to say about itself, but only about what is said about the subject in books, newspapers, and other media which have no connection with that subject.  All information needs to be independently verifiable--without this verifiability, there is literally nothing upon which we can base a proper encyclopedia article.  Hope this helps, and feel free to ask further questions.  Thanks.  --Finngall talk  16:38, 20 July 2021 (UTC)