User talk:CompoSIDE

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This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

Carrie Guile at CompoSIDE (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

We would like to add the page for people to start editing it the same way other companies have done (Ansys, Altair etc), We will work again on the content of CompoSIDE page to meet your policy - We will only put very basic information. We do not want to use Wiki purely to promote ourselves - we want CompoSIDE to exist on Wiki as we believe it is right thing to do - CompoSIDE has become part of the engineering software landscape. We would really appreciate unblocking our page. Thank you. Radek Michalik CompoSIDE Managing Director

Decline reason:

There are a couple of issues here. Firstly, I'm concerned by your use of first person plural, which seems to imply this is a shared account. Secondly, I am unconvinced you should be editing in an area where you have a conflict of interest. PhilKnight (talk) 14:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here are a few key questions:

Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
Do you understand conflict of interest?
Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. PhilKnight (talk) 17:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear PhilKnight,

Thank you for your prompt reply. I think we understand the three points you outlined.

I would like to be able to convince you that we want to be part of Wikipedia as we believe we are becoming genuine part of the software world landscape which is part of the public knowledge Category:Computer-aided_engineering_software. If you take an example of companies like Ansys or Altair these companies are part of the same software landscape, yet they have the pages in Wikipedia without violating Wikipedia policy.

I have to admit that we are new to Wikipedia in terms of adding/editing content. Maybe we should have read more carefully Wikipedia guiding principles but as a new contributor it was quite natural to us to create company account and create the Wikipedia company related page. As it is transparent and clear to Wikipedia Admins/Moderators. But maybe we should have started differently.

I would like to kindly ask you for your suggestions on how we should approach it now. Or what would be the best way to feature CompoSIDE in Wikipedia and related software pages and not to violate the Wikipedia policy.

I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully to see CompoSIDE on Wikipedia.

Respectfully

Radek Michalik CompoSIDE (talk) 18:58, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please do understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia project and does not "feature" companies. For a company to be included in Wikipedia, the company's article must meet our verifiability policy, our notability policy, and our neutrality policy. PCHS-NJROTC ^(Messages) 19:03, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm slightly concerned by your use of the first person plural, because it implies this account is a shared account. Wikipedia policy is that you should have one person for one account. PhilKnight (talk) 21:50, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to PhilKnight's comment, I'd say that calling yourself both Carrie Guile and Radek Michalik implies it a lot more. Unless it's "guile", as in deceiving us, which is not okay. Origamite^ⓣⓒ 15:36, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]