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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: name matches the owner of the Levitron trademark, the article you have been editing, and could be seen as promotional. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 09:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

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If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 09:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Daniel. Fascinations represents the owners of the referenced Trademark and has made edits to ensure proper reference of the mark and other IP. Wikipedia suggests such action in lieu of other, less constructive ones. It would be inappropriate to use a pseudonym while acting to police the mark or other IP. Fascinations did not start the article and does not see Wikipedia as a tool for advertising. For a company to market a product, or a company to defame its competition, this would be a clear case of COI. For a company to act to ensure proper reference of their IP (and Wikipedia policy with regard to Trademark, Copyright and other IP), is not COI. If COI is feared, perhaps arbitration would be appropriate. Fascinations (talk) 21:00, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed on User:Fascinations, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Mlpearc powwow 02:20, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]