User talk:Ronkeidar

Welcome![edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Ronkeidar/sandbox[edit]

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A tag has been placed on User:Ronkeidar/sandbox, 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.

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Disclosure of employment[edit]

Hello Ronkeidar. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:Inside Secure, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Ronkeidar. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ronkeidar|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 23:14, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help me![edit]

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Please help me with...

Greetings, I work for a company that has no entry at Wikipedia, even though it is publicly listed and exists for more than 20 years. Wikipedia does not allow me to add an entry because i am an employee of that company. Company name is "Inside Secure" www.insidesecure.com Can someone add this entry? I can gather any information required for you Thanks Ron Keidar rkeidar@insidesecure.com

Ronkeidar (talk) 19:31, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There are two issues here. Firstly, if you edit Wikipedia as part of your job, you will need to disclose that on your user page. You can make use of Template:Paid to do so; the template page has code you can copy-paste and fill out.

Secondly, being publicly listed or having existed for 20 years are not indications of notability. You're not strictly forbidden from writing about your company, but it's not a good idea due to your inherent conflict of interests. That brings us to the reason why your sandbox was deleted: It was nowhere close to an encyclopedia article but blatantly promotional. If reliable sources such as newspapers or reputable magazines have reported about the company in some detail - not press releases or the company's own website, not blogs or social media, not just passing mentions or business directory entries - you can write a draft about the company that neutrally summarizes (in your own words, to avoid copyright issues) what those sources have to say about the company, and you can submit the draft for a review by an experienced editor. If your intent, however, is to promote yourself or your company, we'll have to ask you to stick to LinkedIn or the like; at Wikipedia that's not tolerated. Huon (talk) 22:29, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User pages[edit]

A Wikipedia user page is for someone who is active in working for the project to give a little information about himself or herself in connection with his or her work for the encyclopaedia: it is not a place to post a personal web page, unrelated to work for Wikipedia. Also, linking to your LinkedIn account and Youtube videos gives the impression that your purpose is to attract readers to those pages, which is contrary to Wikipedia's policy against promotional editing. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:05, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

October 2017[edit]

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:16, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Ronkeidar, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Inside Secure have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:18, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Inside Secure (December 30)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Also, not sure it passes notability criteria. To show notability you need to show significant in-depth coverage from independent, reliable secondary sources. Announcements and press releases don't show notability. Stuff like the SecureID source are simply press releases redone by sources.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Inside Secure and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Inside Secure, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and save.
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Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:05, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Ronkeidar, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:05, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]