User talk:Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Freudenberg IT, and I noticed that your username, "Freudenberg IT de", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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RE: Your username
Hi MarioGom,

thanks for your notice! I just requested a change of the user name to Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT. Is that the reason why you deleted the last version I edited? The current live version includes outdated and wrong data. So, we immediately have to change that. Is there any way to get back to the last publsied version again?

Cheers, Sophie

Paid editing disclosure
Hello Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Freudenberg IT, and that 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:Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:17, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Drm310, thank you for you advice! I did disclose my employer as you adviced now.

Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT (talk) 11:46, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Drm310,

it says that our article still contains content that is written like an advertisement. This notive is from 2011. How can we remove that note from the article page?

Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT (talk) 11:50, 10 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Sophie, and thank you for making the proper disclosure. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
 * I see that you have removed the advert tag already. I would advise you to avoid editing the article directly, but rather request changes on the article talk page. You can use the request edit template to put your request in a queue that will attract the attention of other uninvolved editors.
 * This article is not very well-sourced. One of the sources, https://www.com-magazin.de/, does not mention Freudenberg at all. Another, https://t3n.de, has only a brief mention. We require in-depth coverage for a source to be considered reliable.
 * While German-language sources are OK, it would help if you could find some English-language sources if they are both reliable and not affiliated with the company. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:52, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Mean as custard (talk) 10:26, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Your question at the Help Desk

 * Hi, Your question at the Help Desk was archived as I was writing a reply, so I've copied the reply here. No, you should not delete the old article, since Freudenberg IT existed in the past so deserves an article.  You have a WP:Conflict of interest and probably WP:Paid status which you are obliged to declare.  It might be WP:Too soon for an article about Syntax Systems, but if it has been written about at length in independent WP:Reliable sources then it deserves a separate article.  You are probably not the best person to write the article because of your conflict of interest and because you know too much about the company, but if you can forget what you know, avoid marketing language, and just summarise what the sources say, then it would probably be best if you use WP:Articles for creation rather than trying to publish directly into main space.  This gives you the opportunity to develop the article and receive any further guidance you need before final publication.   Dbfirs  08:48, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. A other User told me that i can make a Wikipedia Move ? Whats the difference and is this also possible ? And we also want this article in german because our base is in Germany. Is it possible to translate the english article to german or how does this work ? Sophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT (talk) 12:30, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I think it would be unwise to move the existing article because it contains information only marginally related to the new title, but for now your could make a redirect from Syntax Systems to Freudenberg IT. Eventually, there could well be a new article on Syntax Systems that mentions Freudenberg IT.  The German Wikipedia has slightly different rules, but if you are fluent in German then you can translate the English article if you acknowledge the source.  See WP:Translate for guidelines on translation into English.  I expect that the German Wikipedia has similar guidelines.  Also see WP:Translate us for details of translation from English.  Don't use Google translate.   Db<i style="color: #4fc;">f</i><i style="color: #6f6;">i</i><i style="color: #4e4;">r</i><i style="color: #4a4">s</i>  15:01, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Great thank you. So we decided to write a new article about Syntax Systems. But we still have the problem that the old article about Freudenberg IT contains wrong information. So if we can't delete that article we have to correct the wrong information. But anytimes we try to correct the article Wikipedia rejected the new version. So is it possible to upload the new version of the article Freudenberg IT on wikipedia and somebody check it ?

RegardsSophie Westphal at Freudenberg IT (talk) 12:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I haven't looked at what you were trying to do, and you don't seem to have edited since last September, but, since you have an obvious WP:Conflict of interest, it would be best to state on the talk page of the article what changes you wish to be made. Do remember, though, that it is not your article.  We are not interested in what Freudenberg IT or Syntax Systems wants to say about itself, but we are keen to correct any inaccuracies.   <i style="color: blue;">D</i><i style="color: #0cf;">b</i><i style="color: #4fc;">f</i><i style="color: #6f6;">i</i><i style="color: #4e4;">r</i><i style="color: #4a4">s</i>  15:48, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! TSventon (talk) 09:33, 9 August 2019 (UTC) TSventon (talk) 09:33, 9 August 2019 (UTC)