User talk:Aglowinternational

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Aglow International, 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.

Accounts used solely for blatant self-promotion may be blocked indefinitely without further warning.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. --Dynaflow babble 00:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

An answer to part of your question

Hi. The major reason this article is attracting negative attention is that you are obviously affiliated with the organization in question, as indicated by your username. Wikipedia gets a mind-bending amount of spam, and it's necessary for us to be rather cut-throat in our efforts to keep the spammers at bay. The article initially attracted my attention about ten or twenty seconds after you created it because your username matched the article title, and, per precedent, that sets off my personal SPAMDAR. You apparently set off someone else's SPAMDAR too [1], but a third editor [2] concurred with me that the article should not be summarily deleted. Despite the obvious concern with WP:COI causing problems that could lead to a breaching of Wikipedia's WP:NPOV policy, this article is prima facie not spam.

Your username will continue to cause you problems because, per WP:U, Wikipedia does not allow group user accounts or accounts named after groups. You should register a personal account of your own. After you have done that, I will put the Aglowinternational account up for non-prejudicial blocking at WP:UAA so that a sysop can take it out of circulation. If you wish to do so, you can put a link to your former account on your new userpage using {{userlinks|Aglowinternational}}, which will display as Aglowinternational (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and keep any potential conflict of interest issues above-board and keep you from running afoul of the ever-popular allegations of sock-puppetry that seem to get thrown around with regularity on contentious articles.

I will be back at the article at some point later on to respond to any additional questions you may have, but in the meantime, you may want to contact a neutral third party to look at the article and vet it for content-neutrality. Try sending an e-mail to Prof. Griffith at Princeton [3], whose book you cite. This seems to fall into her area of expertise, and she or one of her grad students might be willing to make at least a cursory run through the article to check for any glaring errors or omissions, and then make changes and/or leave their assessment here on the Talk page. That will help alleviate many of the concerns that have been expressed over this article. --Dynaflow babble 01:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. I wasn't thinking when I signed up the account and just used the name of the organization since I was writing the article about it. I will do what you suggest and change it. I will also try to get someone to read the article for neutrality.

Thanks once again! Aglowinternational 16:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Following Through

Hi,

I took your suggestion and created a new user account and linked to the old one from my userpage (I hope I did it right). Should I resubmit the article through this new account and delete the old one? I also contacted Prof. Griffith as you suggested and hopefully she will be able to read through the article.

Thank you so much for your help!

Below is my new user account.

Minna812 17:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Aglowinternational 17:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)