User talk:Alanhancock

The article P B Curran Insurance has been 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 or service and which 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. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 13:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of P B Curran Insurance
A tag has been placed on P B Curran Insurance requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for organizations and companies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Quartermaster (talk) 13:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

explantion and offer to help
Hi, Alanhancock, I'm sorry that your initial foray into editing Wikipedia has been difficult. I have again deleted the article that you created. Wikipedia has specific inclusion criteria for new articles; for companies, those criteria are located at Notability (organizations and companies). In general, an article should be written based on what reliable, independent sources say about a topic. This usually means significant coverage in books, newspapers, journals, etc, but generally does not include self-published websites and corporate advocacy groups. If you can find significant coverage of the company in these types of sources, then an article on the company is probably justified. If you find those sources and would like help in creating the article, please let me know on my talk page, and I'll be happy to help you. Karanacs (talk) 18:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)