User talk:Cakaucic

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Disclosure of employment

Hello Cakaucic. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to User:Cakaucic/sandbox, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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Hi There! I have disclosed my employment on my personal page (I am the Marketing Coordinator for the company I am writing about) and am trying to create an informative resource for people to go to. :Do you mind if I ask - how do other companies get their own Wikipedia pages if no one from the company is allowed to write about them? It can't all be user-generated content, correct? The content I am citing and pulling from is all content that I have either helped create or our company has previously created.

Thanks

Cakaucic (talk) 20:53, 30 April 2019 (UTC)Catherine[reply]

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Additionally, many restaurant brands and restaurant leaders mention us in their own Wikipedia pages. For example, Danny Meyer mentions winning an award from our company as does City Barbeque.

Thanks!

Cakaucic (talk) 21:17, 30 April 2019 (UTC)Catherine[reply]

Thanks for your disclosure. I'll try to answer as many of these questions as I can.

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So to summarize, you will find it a challenge to write about your company. Creating articles on Wikipedia is a hard task, even more so for editors with a conflict of interest. I would advise that you review the links I have provided in my response. Good luck to you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 23:03, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi again! Thanks for all this info - so from what I have gathered, it is not encouraged for me to write about my organization in a "selling manner." Am I able to create the page with limited details and let others add to it outside of my organization? Additionally, if other Wikipedia pages mention TDn2K, why can I not create a page for it to be linked to (i.e. Our own Wikipedia page)?

Your submission at Articles for creation: TDn2K (May 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Robert McClenon were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 20:39, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Cakaucic! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 20:39, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there! I included the copyright info on the image.

Thanks! Cakaucic (talk)Catherine

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--- Hi! I have added a note to the file page indicating that we have permission to reuse the image under the CC-BY-SA license. Thanks!

Cakaucic (talk)Catherine

You may have permission but we don't know that, that is why we need the permission emailed in from the copyright holder. Nthep (talk) 21:04, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have emailed the above address to let them know we have permission as the copyright owner.

Thanks, Cakaucic (talk)

Draft:TDn2K concern

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HiHasteurBot - you may delete it. If I am able to do it, I am happy to do so.

Thanks Cakaucic (talk)

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