User talk:FinlayatOptimal

Hello, FinlayatOptimal, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Ozzie10aaaa and I've volunteered to be your Wikipedia mentor. I'm here for you whenever you need help with Wikipedia. It's great to have you on board to help create this online encyclopedia.

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Once again, welcome to Wikipedia!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:31, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Ozzie10aaaa thanks so much for the warm welcome!

I have used Wikipedia for years but never contributed before so it's very exciting! FinlayatOptimal (talk) 07:03, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Draft:Global Asset Reliability & Performance Index (GARPI), 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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.

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. VortexPhantom🔥 (talk) 10:02, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi VortexPhantom thank you for advising, it is not our intention to spam Wikipedia with posts. I understand the need for secondary sources however this is a brand new idea so I am not sure how it is possible to provide secondary accounts of this? The survey is also completely free and would help companies optimise their asset management, it is not intended to sell anything.

Can you please advise on how I can proceed? If you have any examples I could use as a guide that would be brilliant. FinlayatOptimal (talk) 14:23, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

If there are no secondary sources about subject, there is no need of it's article then. Your tone was very promotional, it should be neutral. Wikipedia is not a platform for providing original research, all details should be covered already by reliable sources. VortexPhantom🔥 (talk) 09:16, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

I understand now thank you for the guidance! FinlayatOptimal (talk) 07:39, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, FinlayatOptimal, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hello FinlayatOptimal. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, 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 User:FinlayatOptimal. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=FinlayatOptimal|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. You did disclose on the draft, please disclose on your user page as well, for better visibility. You may continue editing, this is just for better visibility. 331dot (talk) 08:56, 13 April 2026 (UTC)