User talk:2013mao

Welcome!

Hello, 2013mao, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:35, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please move pages rather than copy-and-pasting them

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/WhereverTV a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into WhereverTV. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

David, thank you for your guidance. I did go to the online chat forum and specifically asked the moderators what to do before I did anything. They told me to delete all content from the current page (Wherevertv) and redirect them to a new page (WhereverTV). They also told me to do the same with the user wherevertv. Create a new user 2013mao and redirect wherevertv talk pages to the new user. That is why I did what I did.

I apologize if I bypassed Wikipedia protocols. That was not my intention. I am just trying to comply with the policy that I was not familiar with (i.e. the page and user cannot be the same name - and the user cannot be a company name).

2013mao (talk) 14:19, 23 May 2013 (UTC)2013Mao[reply]

Thanks. I'm sorry you got conflicting advice. Which online chat did you go to? I need to talk with them and make sure their advice isn't more current than mine, or if mine is more current, ask them to use the current advice. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 16:21, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hello, 2013mao. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article WhereverTV, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

Editing with a conflict of interest is much less of a problem when an article is in Wikipedia:Articles for creation, because part of a reviewer's job is to make sure that the article complies with all Wikipedia content policies. However, since you copied the text into the main encyclopedia, you effectively bypassed this review and can expect to have this article heavily scrutinized and possibly heavily edited or even nominated for deletion. You are welcome to make clerical errors and delete incorrect or misleading information, but I strongly urge you to add significant new content to the main article or revert another editors deletions. Instead, propose the change on Talk:WhereverTV. Although it is not required, I urge you to "declare" your close relationship with WhereverTV by editing Talk:WhereverTV and changing

{{Connected contributor|2013mao|WhereverTV|declared=no

to

{{Connected contributor|2013mao|WhereverTV|declared=yes

If I am mistaken, and you do not have any relationship with the company or its products other than, perhaps, as a customer, please accept my apologies and please understand that your former username led me to believe you had such a connection. If you do not have any such relationship, you may remove the "Connected contributor" template from Talk:WhereverTV and the "COI" template from WhereverTV. It would be helpful but is not required if you put a statement on Talk:WhereverTV explaining that, despite your former username, you have no "Conflict of interest" in editing WhereverTV. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 20:05, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my comments on the WhereverTV talk page regarding this. I am a customer and fan of WhereverTV and have been following them since they launched their website in 2007. I created the username to be the same as the company name, not knowing this is not allowed (as this is my first article I have written for Wikipedia).

2013mao (talk) 14:22, 23 May 2013 (UTC)2013Mao[reply]

Thanks. I've removed the {{COI}} and {{connected contributor}} templates from the article and talk page. Thanks for your cleanup of the references as well, that's much appreciated. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 16:20, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of WhereverTV for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article WhereverTV is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WhereverTV until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Nate • (chatter) 20:41, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]