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I'm trying to understand the meaning of the alert "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. "

I am familiar with the Wikipedia content policies and have made every effort to ensure that the content was written with a neutral point of view and was extensively sourced.

Would it be possible for someone to point out specifics where the content is in violation of WIkipedia policy? We want to comply with the regulations but we don't what what areas of the page content is in conflict with your policy.

Thank you. Rosemary Brisco — Preceding unsigned comment added by LeeBrisco (talk • contribs) 18:51, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rosemary, on first look, you're actually doing quite well. The content is not overly promotional and your useraccount(s) are set up properly, that is to say, not using the company name, and not using role accounts. The difficulty with articles like these, is that when you are being paid by a company, you have an incentive to make the company look good. The editorial choices you make on what material to include and what not to include will probably be guided by the desire to emit a positive image, which makes it so difficult to edit with a conflict of interest. You will likely have a bias in selecting sources that are either positive or neutral, and leave out any negatives, consciously or unconsciously.

Going in to to content itself, the Background/Overview section has some issues with presenting opinions as universally held, and the People and Patents sections are unneeded for an encyclopedic article. I'm going to go ahead and prune those sections.

I'm unfamiliar with the company myself, so I have no way of determining if there exist any negative aspects that have received coverage and would need to be included in a balanced article, but for now, let's just assume there aren't. I'll drop a note at our conflict of interest noticeboard, with the request for them to look things over too. They might have some solid advice too. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 21:13, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Martijn:

Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We see that you have made edits to our content and we are hoping that this brings the entry closer to complying with Wikipedia guidelines. We are working to address your request for clarification in the Background/Overview section of this new page.

Is it not typical that a Wikipedia entry about a specific company is written by someone familiar with that company? Since Meru has been in business for over 10 years with almost 500 employees globally, and is a publicly traded company, we were surprised that no one had started a Wikipedia page before the entry last week.

Now that the page is live, we do hope that other people in the community will add their feedback to the page but we feel that this alert may discourage them from doing so. What could we do to have this alert removed from the page?

Thank you

Rosemary — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbrisco (talk • contribs) 20:49, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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