User talk:Benjaminburg

January 2017

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I read your message that was left on my talk page, and here is my response. For starters, we have two guidelines/policies: WP:COI (conflict of interest) and WP:PAID (paid editing). To describe them in a nutshell, people affiliated with the subject of the article (in your case, an employee of a company) must exercise extreme caution in writing or editing an article for that subject: ideally, affiliated people should avoid editing articles and instead should make suggestions on the article's talkpage, but if this cannot be avoided, a declaration of a conflict of interest must be made, either on the user's userpage or on the article's talk page. As for paid editing, being paid to edit articles on Wikipedia, especially if paid to edit specific articles, is strongly discouraged. If such edits are done, editors must disclose who paid them to edit the articles and the circumstances behind such edits. For more information, I suggest you read the aforementioned links.

As for the article itself, Wikipedia has inclusion guidelines or notability guidelines, about what can be included in the encyclopedia. A broad summary can be found at WP:GNG, while a page specifically for corporations is at WP:NCORP, but in a nutshell, a good rule of thumb is that the subject of a Wikipedia article has been covered in reliable sources (see the link for more information). If editors do not think that the subject of an article meets our notability guidelines, editors can propose that the article be deleted, or it may be nominated for deletion. As you mentioned in my talk page: "My understanding is that there is not coverage about our software is this correct?" The answer is yet: I and other participants of the deletion discussion have searched for coverage and have thus far concluded that whatever coverage exists (online or offline) is not sufficient for the company to be deemed notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. As for "advertising", Wikipedia deals with spam seriously and to cut a long story short, advertising is not allowed on Wikipedia. If the article is deleted, you and your company should not take it seriously: Wikipedia has nothing against your company and its people. It just can't have an article on every single company in the world, and it has inclusion guidelines that have to be met. As you can see on the page WP:OUTLETS, there are other sites on the web that are more accommodation on your kind of material. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 22:33, 18 January 2017 (UTC)