User talk:Ansummers

Threadlift
A tag has been placed on Threadlift, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done 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. If you can indicate why Threadlift is really not blatant advertising, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Threadlift. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11 under General criteria. You might also want to read the guidelines on spam. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that admins should wait a while for you to assert why the article is not blatant advertising, please affix the template  to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion. It is also a very good idea to add citations from reliable sources to ensure that your article will be verifiable.

It's also a copyright violtaion, but since it looks like you copied it from your own site, you could grant permission. However, let's face it, why would Wikipedia want to provide free hosting for Dr. Summers' plastic surgery ads? Fan-1967 05:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Don't you think we've sen this pattern a thousand times before? Someone who's never contributed to Wikipedia before shows up and creates a blatantly self-promotional article, and then is surprised to find that we don't like that very much. Then the author will try to see how much they can scale back the self-promotion while still keeping it. I think we're better off waiting for a disinterested author to cover the subject if it needs to be covered. Fan-1967 06:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

talk

 * Copy of talk:Threadlift at the time of deletion:

I am the author of the original article and I have modified the article for publication in Wikipedia.

Adam Summers, M.D.


 * How generous of you, to grant permission for us to give you free advertising. Your generosity is absolutely overwhelming. Thanks, but it's still spam. Fan-1967 05:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the section "About Dr. Summers". The remaining information in the article is accurate and based on other published journal articles.


 * ...and still self-promotional. Funny thing, I tried a couple websearches. Searching for threadlift gets 124,000 results. Searching for threadlift and your name in the same article gets about 800. Yet somehow you feel the subject cannot be adequately described without mentioning you. If an article is needed on this subject, I think we'd be better off waiting for a new author to create one. Fan-1967 05:57, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Please read WP:SPAM and Copyright FAQ -- Armadillo From Hell 05:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

To quote Wikipedia "All of us were newcomers once, even those careful or lucky enough to have avoided common mistakes, and many of us consider ourselves newcomers even after months (or years) of contributing." I have read through much of the Wikipedia guidelines and I have made additional changes to the article and will continue to improve the article based on feedback. Thank you Ansummers 07:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Endorse
I endorse all that has been said. Coming from you, it will always be spam. Wait - the article is best written by someone who has had, or is contemplating, the operation.

Incidentally, your user name was a bad choice: I thought you were Ann Summers! -- RHaworth 12:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC)