User talk:Mark.franken

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Spansion, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:

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Conflict of interest[edit]

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:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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 conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:24, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

September 2009[edit]

Following the above advice you have continued to edit the article Spansion extensively. If you have not already done so you may like to read the conflict of interest guideline. In particular I should like to draw your attention to the following excerpt from that guideline:

If you fit either of these descriptions:

you are receiving monetary or other benefits or considerations to edit Wikipedia as a representative of an organization (whether directly as an employee or contractor of that organization, or indirectly as an employee or contractor of a firm hired by that organization for public relations purposes); or,

you expect to derive monetary or other benefits or considerations from editing Wikipedia; for example, by being the owner, officer or other stakeholder of a company or other organization about which you are writing;
then we very strongly encourage you to avoid editing Wikipedia in areas where there is a conflict of interest that may make your edits non-neutral (biased). Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy states that all articles must represent views fairly and without bias, and conflicts of interest may significantly and negatively affect Wikipedia's ability to fulfill this requirement.

JamesBWatson (talk) 14:23, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do not delete well-sourced material. Do add more well-sourced material that is cited in-line.[edit]

I have needed to roll back your edits that deleted well-sourced material about Spansion's scandalous compensation practices while it was laying off other workers in the time leading up to its bankruptcy from the article. If you continue this content removal, you can be blocked by another administrator. However, you are free to add content about this company's turnaround and are encouraged to do so as long as you use in-line citations as described in Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations. Out-of-band citations like the kind you used are discouraged because the facts that are supported by them are harder to check, making it easier for someone to slip in something unverifiable into the article. You are also encouraged to remove defamatory material from this article if it has no source at all, or is sourced to a problematic publication (e.g. this source is not credible like being sourced to the Weekly World News or it was plagiarized like articles that Jayson Blair "wrote"). We aim to preserve a record of all of the well-sourced history, whether or not it is good or bad. Jesse Viviano (talk) 08:27, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of an ANI post regarding you[edit]

Hello, Mark.franken. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Atama頭 20:08, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spansion[edit]

Do not copy material from Spansion's website into the article Spansion. Aside from being spammy and unencyclopedic, it's a copyright violation. Propaniac (talk) 14:02, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]