User talk:GiGbGd

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Hello, GiGbGd, 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 Geoinfosys, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Geoinfosys


A tag has been placed on Geoinfosys, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, 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. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. United States Man (talk) 04:09, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Your request for undeletion
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is geoinfosys. JohnCD (talk) 11:21, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I have run out of time tonight, but I will reply here tomorrow to your message on my talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:01, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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Reply to your message on my talk page
You may certainly submit another article about GeoInfoSys, but it would need to be completely different from the one you wrote, which was very obviously the company using Wikipedia to tell the world about itself, listing all its services and stressing how wonderful it is, using PR-speak full of "peacock terms" - "entrepreneurial, innovative, solutions, dedication, determination, discipline, perseverance, creative, innovative... " Though we don't make it clear enough at sign-up time, this is an encyclopedia project, not a free advertising platform, and anything like that is deleted at sight.

Because you wrote in that style, I presume that you are connected with the company. That gives you, from Wikipedia's point of view, a WP:Conflict of interest. Editing with a COI is discouraged, one reason being that people with a COI, while protesting that they have no promotional intent, seem unable not to write promotional fluff.

Start by reading WP:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. You should not directly submit an article; click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will set up a draft page for you, with a link to submit it, when it is ready, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will check it and either accept it or give you feedback.

You may find User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard useful for background.

Read WP:Your first article. The criterion Wikipedia uses to decide what subjects are suitable is called WP:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it important and significant enough to write substantial comment about? So start by finding independent references about the company in reliable published sources. See WP:Notability (summary) for what that means.

When you write, make a strong effort to think of yourself not as writing for the company - that way lies speedy deletion - but as writing for Wikipedia about the company, from outside. Don't address potential clients, but the general reader. Don't fill it with what the company wants to tell the world, consider what an encyclopedia reader might want to know. Don't fill it with glowing adjectives - just plain facts, neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources. Don't list all your services in detail - you can link to your website so that anyone who really wants to know it all can go there. Realise that nobody "owns" a Wikipedia article, not its first author and least of all its subject - others can and will edit it. If you want a page you can control, this is not the place for you.

By now you are thinking that this is more difficult than you expected, but if Wikipedia is more useful than, say, Myspace, that is only because we have more demanding standards.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:02, 25 June 2013 (UTC)