User talk:FamilyFeaturesEditorialSyndicate

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Hello, FamilyFeaturesEditorialSyndicate, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Your attention needed at WP:CHU

Hello. A bureaucrat or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 18:24, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:FamilyFeaturesEditorialSyndicate

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A tag has been placed on User:FamilyFeaturesEditorialSyndicate requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://marketers.familyfeatures.com/public/about/index.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Username

I'd really recommend that you change your username to something that reflects you as an individual rather than as a company as a whole. I'm not going to block you at this point in time, but please read over our conflict of interest guidelines. I'll post something about it in a moment. The biggest problem with the article you posted on your userspace is that it was incredibly, incredibly promotional. The opening sentence is a good example of how not to phrase something: "As the industry leader in food and lifestyle content placement, Family Features helps brands earn high-quality editorial media coverage across the country through simple and affordable grassroots marketing."

That is incredibly promotional and if not for your comments on another editor's talk page, I'd have blocked you as a spammer. The thing is that while that writing is fine for a personal website, it's seen as promotional/spam on Wikipedia. A better way to phrase it would have been "Family Features is an American PR company that operates out of _____." You can go into some detail about what the company does, but the article as a whole is so overly promotional that it'd be deleted in seconds if you were to try to create this on the mainspace. If you're interested in writing an article about the company, I'd highly recommend that you go through AfC.

However I'd recommend that before you work on the article any further, that you try to find sources to show that the company is notable. The thing to remember is that we do not judge notability on the size of the company or how long it's been running, but by how much coverage the company has received in sources that are independent of the company and in places we'd consider to be reliable. For example, any press releases your company sends out would be seen as a WP:PRIMARY source regardless of where it's published. As far as awards go, they can sometimes help give notability but by large most awards do not count towards notability as a whole. I'd say that less than 5% of any award given in any category counts towards notability and of that 5%, less than 1% would be the type that would give absolute notability. I don't know that the USDA award would really give that much notability as a whole, unfortunately. I did a little search and I'm not finding much out there that isn't a press release. In any case, you should compile a list of sources and try posting at WP:RS/N for help in discerning whether or not we can actually use them as a RS. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:07, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Hello, FamilyFeaturesEditorialSyndicate. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• 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.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:07, 8 May 2014 (UTC)