User talk:Sarahehill

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Hello, Smpcorp, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Yngvadottir Yngvadottir (talk) 15:38, 17 March 2014 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Hi Smpcorp: Thanks for the thank you :-) I'd like to thank you also for registering an account and seeking to help improve Wikipedia. However, to justify an article on Standard Motor Products, Inc., there needs to be evidence that the company is frequently written about in reliable independent sources. Here's a summary of the requirements; Here are specific guidelines for companies. All I see so far in your draft is that linked from the New York Times summary, there is one news article. You need a couple more of those to demonstrate notability in the sense in which we use it.

Also, thank you for being open about your conflict of interest on your user page. I appreciate that, and that you are drafting the article in user space. However, your user name, being that of the company, violates our username policy: see this section. You will need to change it: Wikipedia:Changing username has the directions. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:38, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Blocked

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy.  You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

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My account and the information has been blocked. I understand this is because the username was too close to the organization being written about. I have changed the username and made one under sarahehill. However all the information has disappeared under smpcorp. Yngvadottir also suggested the organization needs more references to legitimate sources, because we "only had one reference" from The New York Times. I am not sure where this knowledge came from or what draft he was looking at, but we had about a dozen more listed. I referenced the NYSE, and multiple New York Times articles. I referenced The New York Post, USA Today and more. In fact, we have well over a dozen or more legitimate sources. We have entire books written by outside sources about the company's history and economic model. I was not finished writing and the article, and the article was still in draft stage before seeking approval when we were blocked. We are a 96 year old company publicly traded on the NYSE. Google the name Standard Motor Products, Inc. and you will find us. How can I proceed? I am creating a very unbiased article using only information from outside sources. We sought a consultant earlier in the year who gave us tips and encouraged us that we would be able to create a page based on how many sources we have. They even said they were confidant we would be able to be on Wikipedia with their "editors'" help or we could try it ourselves and not have to pay them. We are wanting to resolve our non representation on Wikipedia internally using your guide. We are even on Wiki Invest already. Please help.

Smpcorp: I have asked the fellow administrator who deleted the draft to undelete it; I and another editor were able to find further references and I've offered to do some rewriting so that it does not appear promotional in tone. However, the reason Wikipedia has rules against conflict of interest editing is that encyclopedic writing has to be neutral, and therefore is quite different from other corporate writing, and can be extremely hard to do when one cares deeply about the topic. Wiki Invest, for example, has very different requirements.

As to the block on your account, I am not sure what you mean about the new account name; have you already registered a new one? In any event, if you wish to have this one unblocked, follow the instructions in the template; but you must understand that if you are unblocked, just as any article on the company must not be purely promotional, you must not use the account simply to promote the company. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:06, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Here it is — User_talk:Sarahehill. I've left a nice note over there. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 01:19, 19 March 2014 (UTC)