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Paid editor declaration

Thanks for including the paid contributor note in your edit summary. This isn't quite the right way to do things. You want to put the template on the article's talkpage. I'm going to drop a standard note about this at a noticeboard as just a heads-up for the other watchers, please don't be alarmed or take it as an implication that you did anything wrong. The next message from me will be a boilerplate message that you have been mentioned at the noticeboard; again, not anything to be worried about. — Brianhe (talk) 16:55, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Brianhe for the heads-up :.) Barbequeue (talk) 21:56, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since you did not complete your disclosures using the {{connected contributor (paid)}} template, I will ask here. Did you do the Fairmont Hotels work directly as a company employee? Or do you work on behalf of a third party such as a PR agency? – Brianhe (talk) 14:58, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, just saw the disclosure on Talk:Fairmont Olympic Hotel (Seattle). Disregard this question. – Brianhe (talk) 15:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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New discussion opened today. Brianhe (talk) 19:35, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

October 2015

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November 2015

Hello, I'm Muboshgu. Your recent edit appears to have added premature information about a reported sports transaction, so I have removed it for now. The transaction is based on anonymous sources and/or awaiting an official announcement. If you believe the transaction has been completed, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

December 2015

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Speedy deletion nomination of Raven Tools

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It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person 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/Business for more information.
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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

it did not provide adequate independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. Many of your refs were to the company site, blogs or were otherwise not acceptable
More to the point, your article is just a list of what they sell, little about the company itself other than locations. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, turnover or profits. For all we are told, this might be a one of many small IT companies with a handful of employees.
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.

Almost the entire article is promoting the products, virtually nothing factual about the company
You have an "accolades" section, but no criticism. Accolades, incidentally, usually involve awards, not a couple of on-line commentators saying something about them
An example of unsourced claims presented as fact include: Raven Tools’ unique reporting and research functions have received attention from several marketing websites and blogs— more accurately, one blogger has recommended it.

with regard to other articles, note that other stuff exists
the article was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it.

It's not the worse I've seen, and if you want to try again, I'll post the deleted text to a user subpage for you to work on, just let me know. Note, however, that I'm on holiday from later today, so if I've gone, you may need to go to WP:Requests for undeletion. Link to here in your request so it can be seen that I don't object to a userfied version Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:02, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quibble to what Jimfbleak said above. Donated text can be released to the public domain, or it can be released under a Wikipedia-compatible license. Wikipedia:DONATETEXT explains the options that exist. Adding the release statement is pretty easy if it's posted to a website. The text can also be emailed to WMF with the release. – Brianhe (talk) 09:20, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Raven Tools (February 2)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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LaMona (talk) 00:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Linking county names

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Blocked for sockpuppetry

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Speedy deletion nomination of Forrest Breyfogle, III

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A tag has been placed on Forrest Breyfogle, III, 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, product, group, service or person 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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Nomination of Crosby Marketing Communications for deletion

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