Kevinmanji

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Hi Bleak, thank you for your response. I'm a bit confused. When I contributed, I edited the content with absolute truthfulness and objectivity, without any advertising content. May I ask for your help for editing? Kevinmanji (talk) 09:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Bleak, thank you for your response. I'm a bit confused. When I contributed, I edited the content with absolute truthfulness and objectivity, without any advertising content. May I ask for your help for editing? tank you so much! Kevinmanji (talk) 09:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jimfbleak. Primefac (talk) 09:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks, Primefac

Kevinmanji, you have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at Kevinmanji. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kevinmanji|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Also read the following regarding writing an article:

• you must provide 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 organisation or company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, logs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company or organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls

• please don't repeat refs, give them a name. Your refs include one that is surely a mistake, and one that is a promotional press release. Most only confirm what the company sells and who its founders are. Only the funding is notable, but that's sourced to a Nullman press release and doesn't say where the money comes from

• The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

1. significant coverage in
2. independent,
3. multiple,
4. reliable,
5. secondary sources.

Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.

• It's all about what the company sells, little about the company itself other than a location (even that's vague "Silicon Valley"). To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, management structure, turnover or profits

• You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

• With virtually no facts, you just seem to be name-checking the firm, with company-speak like offers ADAS/AD solutions rather than sells ADAS/AD technology

• There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
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• I didn't check

• Not a reason for deletion, but you should use wikilinks like self-driving car and Silicon Valley

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:46, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Bleak, thanks for the reply; it's very helpful. If a company is listed on Nasdaq, are its financial reports from the SEC considered a reliable source? Kevinmanji (talk) 03:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)