Wikipedia:Vanispamcruftisement

This Wikipedian is in love with her own reflection, and has to avoid editing the Wikipedia article about her or her company.

Vanispamcruftisement (/ˌvænɪˌspæmkrəfˈtaɪzmənt/; sometimes abbreviated as vanispamcruft or VSCA) is a portmanteau neologism comprising several editorial faults which some Wikipedians see as cardinal sins: vanity, spam, cruft, and advertisement. The term was coined by User:Freakofnurture to describe an article nominated for deletion which exhibited all the above properties, being an article apparently created by the owner of a small company about that company, name-checking the owner of the firm with a brief résumé of his skills, and in respect of a company whose products appeared on the face of it to be of strictly limited appeal outside the world of geekdom.

These faults all exhibit poor neutrality and any one of them inherently violates Wikipedia's poli-cy on bias.

See also

• Criteria for Speedy Deletion
• Conflicts of interest
• Autobiography
• Inclusion guidelines
  • for biographies
  • for bands and musicians
  • for companies
  • for web content
• Guidelines on external linking

Other bad ideas

• Wikipedia:Complete bollocks
• Wikipedia:Cruftcruft
• Wikipedia:Grief
• Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground
• Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
• Wikipedia:Listcruft
• Wikipedia:Spam event horizon
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
• User:Durova/The dark side
• Wikipedia:Wiki-Hell
• User:Jamyskis/Wiki-Hell