User talk:Zebrabrent

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Conflict of interest[edit]

Hello Zebrabrent. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Selling To Zebras, 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, 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;
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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 a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 22:19, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Selling To Zebras, Inc. Product Logo.JPG[edit]

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Selling To Zebras[edit]

Hi Zebrazent. I saw your concern regarding the article you created. As stated by ErikHaugen (talk · contribs), it seems that you may have a conflict of interest.

Anyways, regarding the article. Almost half of the sources are from the book's website. Since this isn't a widely notable book, this can be seen as self promotion or rather, just promotion. Try using more secondary and tertiary sources. An article or story mentioning a subject doesn't make it necessarily notable. See Wikipedia:Notability (books).

A tip for sourcing, try using more direct links. For example, one of the sources you used was forbes.com. Instead, use this link. Elockid ^(Talk) 01:30, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Erik!

Brent, please stop editing this article; you are perilously close to being blocked; please see WP:SPAMNAME. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 16:33, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Erik, sorry not trying to hide my affiliation with the company. I removed all links to the website and used secondary/tertiary sources with direct links. All i did was simply take the advice that was given to me and try to make it strictly factual and follow the guidelines when i edited the article. I didnt simply repost. I simply used a username i have had for other things, it is not meant to be promotional. Do you object to the username?

However, usernames are acceptable if they contain a company or group name but are clearly intended to denote an individual person, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", "WidgetFan87", "LoveTrammelArt", etc. Remember that promotional editing is not permitted regardless of username. The conflict of interest guideline advises all users to exercise caution if editing articles about businesses, organizations, products, or other subjects that they are closely connected to. If you choose to edit articles that are in any way related to your company or group, you will need to carefully follow Wikipedia's advice on editing with a conflict of interest. Zebrabrent (talk) 16:59, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Selling To Zebras[edit]

The article Selling To Zebras has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non notable

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. --evrik ^(talk) 04:58, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]