User talk:Woodymanchester

HDD Computers Limited
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HDD Computers Limited
A tag has been placed on HDD Computers Limited, 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 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 HDD Computers Limited 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. ZanderZZZ (talk) 13:25, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

RE: HDD Computers Ltd
Hi there Stephen. The crucial point here is that  nothing on Wikipedia  may have copyright attached. It must be released to GFDL so that the material you added is copyrighted at all is the problem - the owner of the copyright is not an issue. A browse through Wikipedia's copyright policy would probably be useful and the section "Information for copyright owners" show you how to release your website under GFDL if you wish to (this would allow it to be copied on to Wikipedia but would also allow it to be used and altered by anyone else as well). You may also like to consider the guidelines on notability of companies as I fear that HDD Computers Ltd falls somewhat short of the bar and even if the article were not a copyvio it may be deleted for other reasons. Finally as the Managing Director of the company it is probably better that you leave the creation of the article to someone who is not connected and is possibly better able to be neutral - if your company really is notable then someone will be along to create and article about it soon enough. Kind regards, nancy  (talk) 16:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * May I also add that another Wikipedia policy of notability for companies also requires verifiability by reliable 3rd party sources. This disallows your own published information, copyrighted or not. This is to to stop Wikipedia being filled with advertising. In any case, anything you put in about your own company is going to be contested by Conflict of interest I'm afraid. --Triwbe (talk) 16:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Woodymanchester. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Stephen Paul Woods, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 16:43, 22 October 2016 (UTC)