User talk:EquipmentManager

June 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Ironplanet. Advertising, and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox", is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Rackabello 16:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Response
I'm certainly willing to edit this page to meet Wikipedia's criteria. Please see the IronPlanet Talk page for my response. Thanks
 * In your note on the talk page of the deleted article, you mentioned that you used another article as an example for what to contribute. As I'm sure you understand now, this should be avoided, since not every article that violates a policy gets noticed by users who understand the policies. I would recommend that when you are unsure, you check to see if there is an applicable policy or guideline. If you wish to rewrite the article so it's not a copyright violation, you can do so without further permission. Note that it should also contain reliable sources and an assertion of notability.  Leebo  T / C  16:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Concerning Iron Planet
I didn't delete the article, I'm not an administrator, only a new pages patroller. As such, I simply tagged IronPlanet because in my opinion it read like a commercial. Articles about companies, websites, and the like are fine as long as the subject is notable, the article asserts that notability, and above all is informational and not promotional in the way it reads. The administrator who deleted the article either shared my point of view or deleted it for other reasons (I think there might have been a copyright issue as well). If you used the template, and wrote an explaniation on the article's talk page, the administrators should have given you time to improve the article before deleting it, but please remember that the hangon template is not binding, and a Sysop can still delete the article in question, even if its marked, if they feel its appropriate to do so. Please don't take this as a chide or an attack, just be aware of the tone of the articles you write, and remember that you are more than welcome to write a new article for IronPlanet, if it complies with the rules If you have any questions or would like some help, drop me a line! Cheers! Rackabello 19:07, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


 * PS: I'm sorry I never responded to your message on your talk page. In the future, remember that the user you are replying to may not see your response unless you copy it to their talk page as well. Rackabello 19:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)