User talk:Christopher.whitcomb

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Hello, Christopher.whitcomb, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Cannon Design, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Cannon Design


A tag has been placed on Cannon Design, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You may freely add information to the page that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SwisterTwister  talk  04:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Advertising
Basically, the whole thing read like an advertisement. It wasn't the worst I've seen (in which there was so much PR-speak that the actual subject had drowned), but if you can't see that it reads that way, you should read WP:SPAM and WP:NPOV. The second one is neutral point of view. NPOV is not easy to achieve if you work in PR. (I sometimes wonder how PR people talk when they're at home... What must be remembered is that Wikipedia is not a directory or a profile host like AboutUs. This is an encyclopaedia, and any hint of promotion is out. Not every company (or individual, or band, or hamster...) gets an article. Notability must be shown, but in plain unadorned English. The sight of something like "so-and-so's portfolio encompasses..." raises immediate doubts about neutrality. That's for the AboutUs profile, not Wikipedia. Look at other articles. Read the policies. I didn't check the references, but read WP:RS to make sure that what you give is sufficiently reliable and independent, and not a press release or an interview with the CEO where the questions were agreed beforehand and the answers written by the PR department. Peridon (talk) 10:38, 8 July 2012 (UTC)