Daniellegross

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Dorsetonian (talk) 23:30, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Daniellegross. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Dorsetonian (talk) 23:32, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

If you have a conflict if interest with respect to Robert L. Stark, you may have a conflict of interest with projects in which he is a major player, such as The Beacon (Cleveland) (see this news article showing how that person and this project are connected). davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:57, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Daniellegross, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Robert L. Stark have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• 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) 20:21, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Please follow guidelines when editing with a conflict of interest

As a general rule, if you, your family, or your close friends are employed by or would benefit financially from editing an article in a certain way, you may have a conflict of interest when making that particular edit. In some cases, you should not make that edit at all. In others, you may make the edit but you should and in some cases must disclose the conflict of interest.

A person with a similar name to your chosen Wikipedia username is known to be employed by a company connected to one or more of subjects you have written about. It could be just a coincidence.

Please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure prior to making any further edits in articles in which you have a conflict of interest. If you do have a conflict of interest, please edit accordingly. If, after reading the guidelines, you realize that some of your past edits should not have been made or they should have been disclosed, please consider undoing the edit if others have not edited after you. If you do not undo the edits in which you have a conflict of interest, please put a note on the talk pages of those articles explaining that you were unaware of the guideline at the time you made the edits.

As I suggested earlier, the fact that your username is similar to that of someone who would have a clear conflict of interest if she made the edits you made could be just a coincidence. If you have no conflict of interest at all, please reply here indicating that you do not have a conflict of interest. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:24, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Stark Enterprises

Thank you for trying to help build Wikipedia, the world's largest free content encyclopedia. Unfortunately, I have reverted your hijacking of this page. Please see User:Deepfriedokra/del for the deletion rationale for deleting the content. If you believe the subject meets WP:CORP, please follow the process via WP:AfC so that content and sourcing can be reviewed. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking." The website of the subject does not meet these requirements. -- Deepfriedokra 21:27, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@Daniellegross: I expanded the hatnote at the top of Stark Industries so it includes a link to Robert L. Stark. That is all that should be done until or unless the company meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations ("WP:CORP") as demonstrated by independent, reliable sources. As Deepfriedokra suggested, you may want to use the Articles for creation ("WP:AfC") process to draft an article about the company. Also, as I and others have said multiple times earlier on your talk page here, please disclose any conflict of interest you have with things you write about and avoid making edits that conflict with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines. Failure to adhere to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines may eventually result in you losing the ability to edit parts or all of Wikipedia. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

@Daniellegross and Deepfriedokra: I have removed the content again from the redirect after it was replaced. Daniellegross, please do not add this content to the redirect again. Hog Farm (talk) 23:35, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Stark Enterprises, LLC for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Stark Enterprises, LLC is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stark Enterprises, LLC until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hog Farm (talk) 23:33, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

January 2020

Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses, like you did in the article Stark Enterprises, LLC. Wikipedia is not a trade directory. If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. CatcherStorm ^talk 02:03, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Stark Enterprises, LLC

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A tag has been placed on Stark Enterprises, LLC, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. CatcherStorm ^talk 03:50, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia is NOT a marketing venue

Up to now, I have assumed good faith with you. I have assumed that you are here to make Wikipedia better.

Some of your initial edits benefited the project.

However, many did not and were reverted.

This happens. People new to the project don't always understand that Wikipedia is and what what Wikipedia is not. In particular, Wikipedia is not a place to promote companies or individuals.

However, you have received several warnings and appear to be ignoring them. My assumption of good faith on your part is wearing thin. I'm sure it is wearing thin on other editors as well.

You are welcome and encouraged to contribute to Wikipedia in areas that you have no personal "stake" in. However, I would strongly recommend that you avoid directly editing any article that touches on any topic you have a personal stake in, including any company you or anyone close to you works for or any organization you or they are heavily involved in, as well as any individual that is close to you personally, professionally, or otherwise. If you do have content that you think should be added to such articles, post a suggestion on the article's talk page and use the {{request edit}} template. If you would like to create a new article about a topic that does not have one, use the articles for creation (AfC) process. Bear in mind that most companies and most individuals do not meet Wikipedia's notability requirements and even a well-drafted article submitted through the AfC process will be rejected if the subject is not "notable" enough by Wikipedia's standards.

Wikipedia has processes and procedures in place to prevent "disruptive" editing. You have already seen some of these: warnings to the editor, reversion of deletes, and protection of pages so only certain editors can edit them (Stark Enterprises is protected against editing by relatively new accounts until sometime tomorrow). In more severe cases, pages can be "locked down" so only administrators can edit them. Also, individual editors such as you and me can be banned from editing certain pages or topic areas or banned from editing at all. In some cases, these bans can be enforced by partial blocks or a full block on editing anything except your own talk page.

Also, if you are paid, directly or indirectly, for your edits, you must read and abide by the Paid-contibution disclosure policy. While all policies in Wikipedia are generally non-negotiable (see ignore all rules for the exception), this policy includes a section which is from the Wikimedia Foundation. That section takes precedence over all non-Foundation Wikipedia policies and should be considered absolutely non-negotiable. The Wikimedia Foundation terms of use can be found here. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 15:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

I@Daniellegross: nformally, I must again ask you to read and heed WP:PAID and WP:COI, please. -- Deepfriedokra 15:57, 22 January 2020 (UTC)