User talk:Ghalvard

Merchant Warehouse
The article Merchant Warehouse has been 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. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- Merope 18:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. -- Finngall  talk  20:10, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

There are two, maybe three problems here: I hope this helps. -- Finngall  talk  21:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Notability: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business directory or a provider of free web space. Subjects of articles need to meet certain notability guidelines--the more specific guidelines for companies can be found here.  Notability can be established via references to independent, reliable sources--ideally, one should be able to reference all factual material in the article.  No such references, or even a bare assertion of notability, were present in the article as written.
 * Neutrality: As an encyclopedia, all articles should maintain a neutral point of view. Articles that look more like advertisements, promo flyers or press releases than encyclopedia articles are going to get tagged for cleanup at best and deletion at worst.
 * (possibly) Conflict of interest: If you're connected in some way with the company, be advised that writing about one's own company or products is strongly discouraged for reasons of conflict of interest. It's okay to correct, say, obvious factual errors, but it's hard to maintain neutrality about things in which one is intimately involved.