User talk:WindwardStudios

A tag has been placed on Windward Reports, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which 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 page 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 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. Drdisque 23:52, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, why was my user page removed? I am trying to learn the rules of Wikipedia but honestly I feel like I need a lawyer to get through most of it.--WindwardStudios 17:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
If you have a close connection to 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing 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,
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
 * and you must always:
 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

Accounts used solely for blatant self-promotion may be blocked indefinitely without further warning.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. &#10154; Hi DrNick ! 18:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * HiDrNick,  thank you for getting back to me.  I see why the page has been removed as there is a conflict of interest between my working for the company and posting an article about what our software does.  How would you suggest I proceed with letting people know about the software and open source projects through wikipedia?  How are other companies listed on the List of Report Software page able to be listed their with their own company pages?  Do we have to wait until some random 20 something decides to write about our software and post a page about it?