User talk:TheBackpack

TheBackpack, welcome back to Wikipedia. I noticed that you never got a welcome message, so I'll add one here.

If you work for a portable employer of record, you might want to read WP:COI and WP:SPAM to avoid possible problems. Also, if you happen to have multiple user accounts in Wikipedia, please take a look at Wikipedia:Sock puppetry to understand Wikipedia's policy. Again, welcome back! --SueHay 22:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, TheBackpack, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --SueHay 22:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commercial use of Image:Gene Zaino.jpg

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MyBizOffice

A tag has been placed on MyBizOffice, requesting that it be 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, service or person and 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.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SueHay 03:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portable employer of record

A tag has been placed on Portable employer of record, requesting that it be 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, service or person and 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.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SueHay 03:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm been involved as the admin in this process, and I'm commenting on the note you left on Sue's talk page. Originally, I declined to speedy delete the PER article, and instead tried trimming it down, because it was presented as a business model that was used by multiple companies. However, a new development, as detailed on the talk page, makes it quire clear that this is not the case, that the term PER is a trademarked brand by Mybizoffice. As such, it completely lacks notability by our standards of such. There are tens of thousands of brand names in the service sector, and it's simply not appropriate to have an encyclopedia article on each. Remember, this is and encyclopedia, not just a random collection of knowledge. As far as I can see, there's not a single reference in the media, business world or otherwise, that gives this term any credibility as the name of a general business model used outsize of Mybizoffice.

Right now, since it's a brand term, and a non-notable one at that, I would be well within my rights to delete the article on sight, but I'm not going to do that, I've prodded it instead, which will give everyone a week or so to see if anything can be gleaned from the article for use elsewhere.

While I appreciate you zeal for expanding the business articles on Wikipedia, I do need to suggest that you consider doing so within our notability criteria in general, and for companies themselves, within the specific guidelines we have for corporations and organizations. We don't need articles on neologisms that do not have any notability, and we generally don't have individual articles on trademarked brands unless they are significantly well know and there are ample secondary sources (meaning media coverage). I you have any questions about this subject or the process, please feel free to drop a note here or on my talk page. AKRadecki^Speaketh 21:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Akradecki. Although most of my information came from company web pages (which is likely what created this whole mess) I do have a Whitepaper regarding PERs published in a book about Contingent Staffing - how do I reference this? --TheBackpack 21:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note on my talk page. I was under the impression Sue was going to work on the combined article. It's still a possibility, of course. There already is an article on Contingent Workforce, as well as the PEO one, so there's plenty of places to start. The text of the old PER article can be retrieved and placed in a sandbox on your user page if you want to use parts of it, but if you do so, I strongly recommend only using the portions that can be backed up with independent sources. Talk it over with Sue and decide how you folks want to proceed. AKRadecki^Speaketh 17:48, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

I am moniotirng Akradeckis page for him. I see you asked about how to use a sandbox, here is a link to one specifically for you. User:TheBackpack/sandbox. Good luck. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 13:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not particulary aware of the circumstances behing User:SueHay going inactive. I can tell you that wikipedia is often stressfull for some people and it is not unusual for editors to leave when they realize this project is not for them or take extended breaks due to things going on in real life. Sorry I could not be of more help on this topic. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 13:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Mbo logo.gif)

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Professional Employer Organization draft

I've got a rough draft (needs work) loaded in User:BWatkins/peodraft if you'd like to take a look. BWatkins 04:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Zaino

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No proof of notability, no references, article appears to be a permanent stub with no hope of being anything more than advertising. Has been tagged as needing references for over a year

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. | Uncle Milty | talk | 22:24, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Gene Zaino

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Fails WP:BIO - I can't find any substantial coverage of this person in reliable sources

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. SmartSE (talk) 13:45, 20 October 2013 (UTC) SmartSE (talk) 13:45, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]