User talk:Kristahtq

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Hello Kristahtq! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 18:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Building consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Image copyright problem with Image:HTQ-logo-200.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:HTQ-logo-200.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. -- STBotI (talk) 21:14, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

HometownQuotes

Per your request, I have restored a copy of the HometownQuotes article to User:Kristahtq/HometownQuotes. If you wish to recreate this article, please make sure it conforms to the guidelines at WP:CORP before doing to. Please let me know if you have any further concerns or questions. Cheers, Caknuck (talk) 20:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Avoiding an Advertising tag

Hi, Kristahtq. I give your article an advertising tag because it read more like a press release or an ad than an encyclopedia article. It didn't strike me as blatant advertising, so I only tagged it as such, and didn't put on a Spam tag (asking for speedy deletion). Finding the balance between describing a company and their products, significance, etc., and sounding like an advertisement isn't always easy. About the only advice I could give is to avoid superlatives and just stick with facts. If the company's won awards, certainly mention them (it helps establish notability) but don't dwell on them. If I could sum it up in a word, I'd say "Neutral."

Hope that helps!

Cheers, Bagheera (talk) 22:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I was being more or less generic in my advice on superlatives and awards and such. I'd have to go back and re-read your original article to refresh my memory on exactly what prompted me to set the Advert tag. Give me a bit of time and I'll go back and take another look. Cheers! Bagheera (talk) 23:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Kristahtq, I took another look at the article, and to my mind the second and third sections are the ones that made me think "advertisement" when I read it. Particularly the second sentence on in the "Assisting consumers" section. I can almost hear an announcer reading it - "Whether you're looking for X, Y, or Z, we can put you in touch with someone who can sell it to you!" Misquoted for example purposes, of course. I'm not sure exactly how to soften those two sections, but to my mind they are the ones that make me think Ad. Not beyond fixing though! Cheers, Bagheera (talk) 23:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of HometownQuotes

An editor has nominated HometownQuotes, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HometownQuotes and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 12:59, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hometown Quotes

Hi Krista, you're going to have to pay very close attention to WP:COI, but also WP:ORG, which states in part, Organizations whose activities are local in scope are usually not notable unless verifiable information from reliable independent sources can be found. I don't find any evidence that your insurance agency is any different or more notable than any other insurance company -- all of whom can get local press. It may be that they're not encyclopedic. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Travellingcari (talk) 16:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)