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[[File:The Wooing of Princess Pat 1918.jpg|thumb|right|200px|alt=Black-and-white photograph of woman gazing into hand mirror|This Wikipedian is in love with her own reflection, and has to avoid editing the Wikipedia article about her or her company.]]<br />
'''Vanispamcruftisement''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|v|æ|n|ɪ|ˌ|s|p|æ|m|k|r|ə|f|ˈ|t|aɪ|z|m|ə|n|t}}; sometimes abbreviated as '''vanispamcruft''' or '''VSCA''') is a [[portmanteau]] [[neologism]] comprising several editorial faults which some Wikipedians see as cardinal sins: ''vanity'' (i.e., [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]]), ''[[WP:SPAM|spam]]'', ''[[WP:CRUFT|cruft]]'', and ''[[WP:NOTADVERTISING|advertisement]]''. The term was coined by [[User:Freakofnurture]] to describe an [[WP:AFD|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 [[geek]]dom.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SPURware]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FSPURware&diff=33139808&oldid=33139672 diff] from 13:20, December 29, 2005</ref><br />
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These faults all exhibit poor neutrality and any one of them inherently violates [[WP:NPOV|Wikipedia's policy on bias]].<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[WP:CSD|Criteria for Speedy Deletion]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest|Conflicts of interest]]<br />
* [[WP:AUTO|Autobiography]]<br />
* [[WP:N|Inclusion guidelines]]<br />
** [[WP:BIO|for biographies]]<br />
** [[WP:MUSIC|for bands and musicians]]<br />
** [[WP:CORP|for companies]]<br />
** [[WP:WEB|for web content]]<br />
* [[WP:SPAM|Guidelines on external linking]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== Other bad ideas ==<br />
{{Spoken Wikipedia|En-Wikipedia-Vanispamcruftisement.ogg|date=2007-06-18}}<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Complete bollocks]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Cruftcruft]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Grief]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Listcruft]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Spam event horizon]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé]]<br />
* [[User:Durova/The dark side]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Wiki-Hell]]<br />
* [[User:Jamyskis/Wiki-Hell]]<br />
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{{Essays on notability}}<br />
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