Talk:Mr. Mike's

WP:FOOD Tagging

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Conflict of Interest (COI) editing

This page was updated with promotional/brochure edits by someone with obvious COI. I'm reverting these changes, Rammp2014, for now. Please take your edit requests to the Talk page so a non-COI editor can make edits that meet Wikipedia's Content policies. Please include reliable, third-party, published sources to cite with these requested changes. Thanks! Stesmo (talk) 22:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Stesmo. I understand the COI policy. What I am not clear on is how do I get the history updated about ownership and what the restaurant is today? Can I ask someone else to research it and post it themselves? As for verification, are newspaper articles and other websites (other than Mr. Mikes) enough proof for verification? I have viewed many other restaurant chains on Wikipedia and found some to be blatant advertising yet still up on Wikipedia (ie: Harvey's). I felt my edits were low-key and sticking to the facts. Sorry, I am very new to Wikipedia and the rules and policies are numerous and slightly overwhelming. Any help you could offer, I would appreciate it. Thanks. BlueCrayon14BlueCrayon14 (talk) 17:43, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi, BlueCrayon14! Thanks for taking this to the Talk page! And, welcome to Wikipedia. I agree, the policies here are numerous and absolutely overwhelming sometimes.

From the page Am I allowed to edit articles about myself or my organization?: "However, if you feel that there is material within an existing article which is incorrect, or not neutral in its tone, please point this out on the article's talk page. Likewise, if you have content which you think should be added, please discuss this on the talk page." And, that place is here, so we're off to a good start.

Regarding Sources, I'd recommend taking a look at Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources as a good place to start. Press Releases (or re-printed press releases), advertisements (or paid-placement articles), and company websites aren't usually great sources for Verifiability for most cases. Though a company website may be adequate for basic, uncontroversial facts (headquarters location, CEO name and other material unlikely to be challenged).

When you see other articles where there is blatant advertising and you don't have COI, you can edit it! You can remove the promotional language, tag the article with an advert tag if the job is just too big and/or start a discussion in the Talk page for that article. If you have a Conflict of Interest (COI), say it's a competitor of yours, you should stick to just starting the discussion on the Talk page and asking a non-involved editor to pitch in.

I'm happy to talk more about Wikipedia, but perhaps we can move questions that aren't directly about Mr. Mike's to your talk page or my talk page. Stesmo (talk) 19:06, 26 August 2014 (UTC)