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Thanks for uploading Image:Sound vision text email.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Sound vision text email.JPG. The copy called Image:Sound vision text email.JPG has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

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A tag has been placed on Sound and Vision AV, requesting that it be 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, service or person and 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.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DGG 01:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. DGG 02:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Sound and Vision
"Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service, or person and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company, product, group, service, or person as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion; an article that is blatant advertising should have inappropriate content as well" from WP:CSD provision A11.
 * It was deleted under the provision
 * So, the article gives the name of the company and the place it operates & the number of staff the names of the principal staff members & the general line of business.
 * This is similar to an advertising notice that one would place in the telephone directory--it says you are an established company and the service you engage it. It exclusively serves to call attention to your company and to promote it, in the words of the rule. It would need to be completely rewritten in order to be this or any other encyclopedia. As you say, it only stated facts, but the facts were not suitable for an encyclopedia article--only for a directory.
 * It also falls under another provision "Unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject."  rule A7
 * There needs to be some specified reason why the page is appropriate to an encyclopedia, which could include two or more important events that the company has produced. However, please note that the following will be needed:
 * The event must, in general, be sufficiently notable that it already has by itself a WP page.
 * There must be some published source cited that describes not just the event, but the role of your company in producing it.
 * Alternatively, the information making it suitable for an encyclopedia could consist or two or more published references talking in a substantial way about the work of the company. They must be published in some reliable source, print or web, but not a blog, and must be in sources completely independent of your company, such as a newspaper or trade magazine. It must be substantial, not a paragraph or two or a listing in a general article.


 * In all this, there is no implication that the company is unimportant--just that the function of wikipedia is that of an encyclopedia, not a directory.
 * If you decide to re-create the article in more substantial form, you will have the problem that the person checking may think it just a re-creation of the same content; the thing to do is to put the proposed text on your talk page, and then ask at WP:Deletion Review for it to be restored. Previous to that, you are welcome to ask my advice about whether the content is sufficient. DGG 23:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)