User talk:AustinAlta

The article Alta Lift Truck Services, Inc has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the notability of the subject may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 15:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The page is now listed for discussion at Articles for deletion. You should make your arguments for keeping the article there. NawlinWiki (talk) 12:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Greetings,
 * When I placed the COI tag, I wasn't really commenting on the content per se, just noting the connection between your username and the subject of the article. If I was concerned about the neutrality of the language within the article, I would have placed an advert tag or proposed its deletion as spam, depending on the seriousness of it.  Hope this helps.  Thanks. -- Finngall   talk  14:05, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
 * and you must always:
 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:53, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank You
Thank you both for your responses.

The Wikipedia FAQ states that;


 * 1) An article must have a neutral point of view (which I believe has been upheld).
 * 2) The claims within must be verifiable by third party sources. Which have been by the links and publications provided.
 * 3) The business must be notable.

The notability in my opinion has been shown by the multiple write ups in industry journals as well as Crains Detroit Business (this is of course going on notability from my perspective and does not necessarily coincide with the rest of the community, which as I said I am willing to accept, however I would ask for some clarification from those making the decision for deletion as to what they would view as notable).

Keeping with the value of transparency, I will disclose that I am the IT Manager for Alta and did not wish to hide that fact (as evidenced by my choice of user name). This article was not created for advertisement in anyway simply out of my own appreciation for Wikipedia and desire to see a strong Michigan company represented in it's pages. I will gladly bow to the removal of any information deemed "advertising" in this article.

For now, I will let the community decide the fate of this entry, and if needs be I will follow the suggested route of creating the page in my user subpage and going from there.

Thank you all,

AustinAlta (talk) 16:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The standards we are going by are those enumerated here (click the link). -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  16:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC)