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Nomination of Business Initiative Directions for deletion or help

Help please with Business Initiative Directions entry/article. Hi Edward,

First of all sorry if I'm writing in the wrong place and sorry for my poor English (I'm not an English native speaker) I write to you because you wrote me back, and I have not been able to contact with someone else inside Wikipedia. Neither I understand the way this website works... I find no chat boxes nor anything. I must confess I'm and old man, and perhaps because of that I found this site incredible hostile. I write to you because since august someone posted an entry on Business Initiative Directions. Its a Spanish marketing agency that sells different products and services (I have no economic relation with them, except for the fact that the owner is an old friend and an old man like I) I want to be clear on the fact that yes, I know this company, and yes, 30 years ago (or more I don't recall) I worked with them several times. It's a marketing company, but the entry accuse them of selling "fake awards". They don't sell awards at all. They do advertising and corporate events. In their events they charge a fee, this is no secret, neither is illegal in anyway. They have 50 years operating inside Spain and now inside the European Union legal framework. Their HQ is located behind the Ministry of Defense in Madrid... every soul there knows them. They offer international business gatherings, and charge a fee for that (among other things more related to traditional marketing, like flyers, magazines and banners... they don't do digital because most of them are old people that don't even have social media) This article is destroying them... based on nothing at all but the opinion of a company that got the invitation to the event and got mad because they wanted to go to an business convention in Paris for free... this people then wrote to a so called NGO that decided to wage war on this small Spanish marketing agency. They created the Wikipedia post and used all the bad press against the company to destroy their prestige...everybody has bad press... this is not fair, neither I humbly believe, was the idea behind Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia was meant to be an encyclopedia for humanity. Not a corporate revenge instrument. Please, help us and guide us on how to deal with this. My friend is asking me if their version of the post could be taken into consideration. All complains of the NGO are addressed there, and even a mixed version will be acceptable for them, but what is cruel and brutal for this company reputation is to post only the NGO version... that is not fair.

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re DYK Gatti

Re your kind thanks. Cheers, Edwardx, nice article

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About the Everette Taylor article

Hi, I am writing concerning the UPE tag on the Everette Taylor article. I wish to remove it as I have actively edited the page, adding info and citations and I didn't collect a dime for my edits, I don't want my reputation smeared over some other editor's mistake. I hope my work on the page is adequate enough for you to consider taking off the banner. Thanks


Majid Al Futtaim : "too promotionnal issues"

Information are directly extracted from regional media sources but also from the US (e.g CNN, Bloomberg). Since the beginning of my intervention on this page (but also before if I am right), several sections have been taken off because they were "too promotional".

In most of the cases, my interventions are objective bullet points, they are simply presenting and don't have any subjective elements. It is simply not consistent and coherent to systematically remove them. They respect the rules of Wikipedia. Shall I request third parties to step in in order to validate the extracts in question ?

-- Wikicapitaineben (talk) 18:01, 14 December 2018 (CEST) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB00:D7:E000:E092:830E:467B:AE52 (talk)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Patricia Moreira

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A tag has been placed on Patricia Moreira requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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As author of the article, you should not delete the speedy deletion tag. Dorsetonian (talk) 18:49, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry Dorsetonian, I was working too fast and thinking about PRODs. Edwardx (talk) 18:55, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not a problem . I'm sorry, I don't see notability here. But in order to give time for third- (and hopefully more) party discussion, I will swap the CSD nomination for AfD. Dorsetonian (talk) 19:34, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Patricia Moreira for deletion

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Birth date Mary Boone

Hello Edwardx,

I don't understand why you undid my edit regarding the birth date of Mary Boone. Do you consider the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) as a primary source? The article already lists it at the bottom, so why do not use the information from there?

Best regards,

--PBJ404 (talk) 21:40, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sidhant Kapoor

Just a friendly heads up on Sidhant Kapoor. I declined your speedy request because there are claims of importance (in fact, claims of the higher standard of notability) and it's not fundamentally an advert. If you still think this should be deleted, AfD is the way to go (because I will contest a PROD).----Fabrictramp | talk to me 14:47, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For your terrific work overall on the business-related articles. Also, thanks for writing missing biographies of billionaires/CEOs around the world. Please continue the good work. Störm (talk) 17:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your kind words, Störm. It is always satisfying to have one's work appreciated. I wish I had the time to start more such articles, but too many require ongoing effort to try to keep them free from non-neutral and promotional content. Edwardx (talk) 20:02, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Chase Coleman III

You recently updated Chase Coleman III's occupation in the lead and infobox sections from "investor" to "hedge fund manager". I highlighted the inaccuracies of this in a previous talk page note. Would you consider reverting this update? NinaSpezz (talk) 16:39, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Isobel D. Thornley has been nominated for Did You Know

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Miklós Palencsár

Hello Edwardx, I hope you are well.

I would like to know why Miklós Palencsár's page was deleted after 5 years been on, and what should I do to get the page back on?

Thank you.

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