User talk:Brianazsweet
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The article Zsweet has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia discourages people from writing articles about themselves, their companies, or their companies' products. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. A good example is the article you wrote on your company's product Zsweet. You may have thought that you weren't promoting the product, but the article included text like "Zsweet® has been able to eliminate this aftertaste with its unique blend of natural fruit extracts making the end result taste like sugar with no noticeable aftertaste." This sounds like it's taken directly from an ad. Furthermore, Wikipedia articles need to be backed by reliable *independent* sources. We can't be taking the word of an interested party (the manufacturer) that Zsweet's fruit extracts are "unique" or that it has "no noticeable aftertaste." Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 11:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
- and you must always:
- avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 17:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
