User talk:Baysidetech

A tag has been placed on FileFortress, 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 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.

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. DUBJAY04 15:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following: Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. DUBJAY04 16:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Place   on the page. Please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag(s).
 * 2) Make your case on the article's .

FileFortress
I reviewed the speedy deletion proposal for FileFortress and declined that request. However, I'd also like to take the opportunity to point out several of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines to educate you about our standards and to hopefully make your editing experience here less stressful for everyone involved. The first is Neutral point of view, which is self-explanatory from the title, but worth reading in full. The second is Conflict of interest, which suggests that you avoid editing articles closely related to yourself, and instead make suggestions on the talk page or comments in related discussions. Most of the conflict of interest concerns are alleviated by identifying conflicts up-front, as your username does, thereby preventing people from believing they are being "hoodwinked". The third is Notability (organizations and companies), which has a section specifically on products and services. I tagged the article you created because it might not meet that notability guideline. What do you think about that issue? You can leave a reply here. Thanks! Please let me know here or at my talk page if I can be of assistance to you.--Kchase T 12:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Kchase02
Thanks for the info. What should I do next? I read the notability info and I am not sure if I need to write a more generic article about our company (which really seems like self-promotion) or simply talk about our other products (which again seems to be grandstanding on our part). Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Also, a side questio: Do you know why I can find FileFortress on wikipedia but not if I type filefortress...is it case sensitive? Can I change that? Thanks.--Baysidetech
 * Does your company have some independent press coverage? If so, it probably deserves an article. If not, it's likely to get deleted. Do you think your company meets Notability (organizations and companies)? Incidentally, I made a redirect at filefortress, so it's linked now.--Kchase T 20:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really have independent coverage. It is popular with our users but I can't speak beyond that.  Thanks for the redirect.  Our company is more notable than some and but less than others.  It's hard for me to say.  This was more of a way to answer the most basic question we get (alot).  I saw that others in the same industry and outside our field where trying to do the same with wikipedia, but I guess I need to leave it to the editors to make the final call regarding who can be seen and who can't.  I did post a copy of a article I wrote about security on the filefortress website (left column) the illustrates the neutrality of how I like to write things..not sure if it's relevant ot this conversation though.  Thanks again for all your insight.  It is appreciated.

FileFortress
A template has been added to the article FileFortress, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author.

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. B. Wolterding 14:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)