User talk:Timothymcdonald



A tag has been placed on The Key Publishing House Inc., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of The Key Publishing House Inc. and leave a note on |the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Deskford (talk) 21:19, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Removed of maintenance tag
Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles you created. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following:
 * Place  on the page. Please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag(s).
 * Make your case on the article's .

Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. --Deskford (talk) 22:37, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Deskford (talk) 22:55, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Deskford for the information, I read it and there is no conflict of interest here as I am familiar with their work through their books and their website and find what they are doing is deserving to be mentioned as they are unique in the publishing business and following their progress will be a good case study for how the 21st century publishers are evolving. Timothymcdonald


 * Thanks for your reply. The reason I thought there might be a conflict of interest is because a number of websites (see here for example) give "Timothy McDonald" as a contact name for Key Publishing House.  If you are not in fact this Timothy McDonald you should probably explain this on the article's talk page, so that administrators will understand your relationship to the publisher.  Regards.  --Deskford (talk) 23:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Deskford, and totally understand where the confusion is. My real name is not Timothy McDonald and I only signed with this name since it is their contact PR person. When I decided to write this I contacted them and mentioned that I want to use one of their people's name and that is the name they gave me permission to use. And that was my only contact with them. Cheers, Timothymcdonald