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Speedy deletion nomination of Projex Software


A tag has been placed on Projex Software requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Help request
Hi there,

I am new to wikipedia - I was trying to make a page to be able to link the development that we're doing to this main page so we don't have external URLs floating around...it seemed that was the way that was preferred to structure the pages (looking at the similar companies like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.) Is there something I was missing? I'm not really sure how it was different...

Thanks,

Eric

How is the company notable? What's the reason an article should exist, other than to avoid having to purchase a domain name? Did the article have verifiable and reliable independent third party sources with significant coverage? Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 21:45, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The message above gave the reason for deletion:"…because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia."


 * Thanks Dori - yea, I read that and am still confused. I'm not trying to avoid purchasing a domain name - I have a domain name - I am trying to share information about the open-source technology that we're developing with others in a logical place, like the list of Python editors, ORM options, [|ORM software], etc.  If you want me to do that linking to my website, thats fine by me.  It just seemed that the way most of the links were setup were pointing back to an internal Wikipedia page for the company as a reference.  I even copied the template from the Autodesk page to make sure it followed suit.  I'm just not sure what I did differently to say that I didn't satisfy the above conditions and I don't want to repeat the same mistakes moving forward.  If I'm required to have external references and write-ups, then that is fine - I don't have that at the moment, so I'll just wait until I do...but it would have just been easier to say "deleted because you need to have external references" vs. saying "why should this be included in an encyclopedia".  I would've included it in an encyclopedia so that I could reference it in other encyclopedia pages so that users aren't confused or moved around...


 * Eric.hulser (talk) 00:01, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * In a way, there are two different things going on here: ① is the company sufficiently notable to have its own article, and ② how to link to a company that doesn't have its own article. The answer to both, though, is the same: it shouldn't be covered on WP (have its own article or mentioned in an article) unless it meets the notability requirement. That doesn't mean that all articles follow the rules, but those are WP's guidelines. Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 02:38, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, I think I get it then - I suppose the best thing then would be to just not modify wikipedia at all until the project gains more traction, then update it in the future as it becomes more visible in the public sphere. Thanks for the help Dori.

Eric.hulser (talk) 16:44, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Just don't recreate the page until it is more well known - you can continue editing other pages though [User:Mdann52|Mdann52]] (talk) 16:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)