User talk:Flojee

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Proposed deletion of Marketing & Communication
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Marketing & Communication, 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 should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent 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.

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I have put a Proposed Deletion template on your page Marketing & Communication because it seems to be the home-page for some collaborative project within your institution. That is not the sort of thing Wikipedia is for - it is a collaborative project to build an encyclopedia, and its pages are only for encyclopedia articles and for the processes used to develop them. There is a long list of things that Wikipedia is not; among these, Wikipedia is not a web-space provider. I am sure there are many web-sites which would be happy to host your project home page; but Wikipedia is not one of them. I am sorry to seem unwelcoming, and if you wish to contribute to the encyclopedia you will be most welcome to do so. The Welcome paragraph above gives links to useful advice. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi John - the collaborative project that is happening within Hart House is something that describes a new initiative taken at Hart House. Much like describing an academic department, or a new fundraising idea, the project is something that people will want to know more about. I have removed deadlines and upcoming steps, as I understand they are internal tools. We do have a separate website for our deadlines and such. Please let me know if that is sufficient. Thanks,Florina.
 * Your article has already been deleted, because the notice I put on it was a PROD, which means that anyone (including you) could have removed it, but if nobody has after 5 days, the article goes. That doesn't mean it can't be re-created, but I still think that what you describe sounds more like material for your college web-site than for a general encyclopedia like Wikipedia. Among the many things that Wikipedia is not is a notice-board for publicising new things, whether they are projects, bands, companies, new words or whatever. The test for inclusion is whether something is notable, which normally means, is it of such general interest that other people have written about it, so that an article can be supported by references from independent, reliable sources? Read the advice in Your First Article carefully, and also the guideline on Conflict of Interest, which says that you should "avoid, or exercise great caution when... editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with". Consider also that you would not own any article you write about your project, and others could and would edit it. If after you have read those you want to go ahead, by all means do - I am not "Authority", just another editor who helps out by checking incoming articles - but those are the standards by which any article you put in will be judged. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)