User talk:Spontaneousgifting

Welcome[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for creating your article on PayMate as a subpage. I suspect that the company does not meet our criteria for notability of companies, and therefore isn't suitable for a separate article, but I have not thoroughly looked at the sources you cite (that's the most important thing in establishing notability) - the one I did look at mentioned PayMate only in passing - it wasn't really about PayMate - and therefore doesn't really prove notability, for example. If there are other sources, it would be good to add those. It would also be good to use footnotes to show where the information in the article comes from.

Suggestions:

Look at the section of the editor's index on new articles, and particularly at the instructional page about a first new article.
If you can improve the article enough that you think it does in fact meet notability requirements, do so, then post a note at the conflict of interest noticeboard, asking that someone else review it, and, if the article is acceptable, move the page (from being a subpage in your user space, to being a separate article). If that doesn't happen, you at least should get feedback as to what other editors think the article is still missing. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:08, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions[edit]

I've done some fixing of the article, and I agree that there do seem to be enough sources (and factors such as size of the company) to justify a separate Wikipedia article. If you'd like - but see the next paragraphs first - I'll move the page so that it's a real article.

Once the page is moved, and is an article, you're pretty much not allowed to edit it, per our conflict of interest guideline. So while it's a subpage is a good time for you to expand it - with information from the cited sources, not from PayMate's web pages and press releases - if you want. Do keep in mind that a relatively new company probably isn't going to (properly) have a huge article about it, unless it has a huge amount of press coverage, and that the goal of Wikipedia (per WP:NOT) isn't to have complete, comprehensive articles that have all available information, but rather to provide an overview for the interested reader, with links to places with details.

Secondly, I've fixed some of the listed sources, but not most of them. Would you please fix the others, in the same format as the three I did?

Third, it is always preferable to show where information came from, using footnotes. Take a look at the article Pablo Ganguli, for example, which - perhaps at the extreme - has just about every sentence footnoted. You'll find more information on footnotes at WP:FOOT. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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