User talk:Nycdan18

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Hello, Nycdan18, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Draft:Deskforce, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Deskforce

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Deskforce, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. creffett (talk) 13:52, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Nycdan18. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Deskforce, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:56, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

COI

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Also read the following regarding writing an article

you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls
The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

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independent,
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Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.

you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
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Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:01, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Talkdesk problems

As I anticipated the sourcing doesn't meet our WP:RS guidelines, which are necessary to show notability. Please read the notability guidelines in detail. I checked your references 9–14. One didn't go anywhere relevant, three were interviews with your founders or managers, one was a LinkIn page; none of these are acceptable. I've not checked the others, But I suspect that these aren't the only low grade unacceptable refs, and I can see at a glance that you include Forbes and PR sites that the notability guidelines use as exemplars of poor sourcing. I can't see anything from the Washington Post, New York Times or the Financial Times or any other independent source that you would expect to mention your company if it were genuinely notable.

It's hard to tell from what you have posted whether it's even notable as we define it. You give the number of employees (should be in the body text too) but nothing on turnover or profits.

You make clearly promotional claims such as Talkdesk are the only CCaaS provider to offer a 100% availability service level agreement for its platform. Talkdesk is able to offer this leveraging a deep network of telecom providers all over the globe and multi-carrier redundancy — why should we believe this when it's your founder saying it?

You have made an attempt here, so I won't delete immediately, but unless you can fix the serious issues, it could be deleted as failing to show notability if nothing else Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:12, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]