User talk:Paultmoon

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Speedy deletion nomination of Evos microscope[edit]

Evos microscope has been tagged for speedy deletion, a process through which unacceptable articles are summarily removed. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which 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 guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Okay, better, but you still haven't established notability. We need more refs, and quick. I suggest you copy the article locally, or to your sandbox and work on it there. When it's ready, recreate it in the normal article space. Either that, or add the {{hangon}} as suggested above, and fix it in place. I'd offer to help more, but I have no idea about that space that equipment is used in. - Denimadept (talk) 03:23, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free rationale for File:Labcyte (company) logo.png[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Labcyte (company) logo.png[edit]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Labcyte (March 21)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Power~enwiki was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

The article appears to be almost entirely sourced to press releases and trivial mentions in journal articles.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:06, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Paultmoon! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:06, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest and paid editing in Wikipedia[edit]

Hi Paultmoon. I spend time working on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine, including companies innovating in that space. I am not an administrator. Your edits to date are rather obviously corporate PR work.

Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how the editing community defines and manages conflict of interest. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Paultmoon. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors themselves - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. You appear to be editing under what could be a real name, but disclosures of conflict interest must be made explicitly here. Would you please disclose if you have some connection with the companies about which you have edited? If you are editing for pay or the expectation of being paid, you must disclose your employer and the client for each set of edits. After you respond (and you can just reply below), if it is relevant I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works -- which should help you be more successful at Draft:Labcyte as well. (I do appreciate, that you are putting that through AfC). Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 19:33, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you read the entry, by all standards it's well defined, dry, info-driven, and very objective. Overall, I'm just confused and concerned how Wiki is authored, managed, and administered. It's unsystematic and random at best in how it approves and disapproves company profiles. I've seen and read many other company entries that are much more commercially toned written by various agencies. I would love to get some guidance on how to write an entry with total transparency where I'm able to share valuable information on our technology on Wiki. Thanks. Paultmoon (talk) 19:58, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying! Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting (see WP:THREAD) - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and so on, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. Threading/indenting also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and eventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

I know this is unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 20:30, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I fully understand that you want to focus on the content that you will like to get added to WP, and I am delighted that you are aware that you have a bunch to learn about how this place works. (Asking real questions, is where learning starts, and you might be surprised at how many people are unwilling to even ask the questions. Often the more experienced the person is as a writer, the harder the time they have pausing and learning how this place works.)

But first things first, and that is getting the foundations laid -- namely the reason you are here.

Would you please respond to my question asking for disclosure. Once you answer, I will explain how we expect conflicted editors to behave (so that you understand the "ground rules") and then I will explain how this place works. One thing at a time. It will take some back and forth and I hope you can be patient with that. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:33, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Labcyte[edit]

Hello, Paultmoon. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Labcyte".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Dolotta (talk) 04:09, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]