User talk:Greatideas

Speedy deletion of Solar Roadway
A tag has been placed on Solar Roadway, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as the Business' FAQ for more information.

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 * I appreciate that your posting was good faith, but it lacked independent verifiable sources to show that it met the notability guidelines, and, more importantly, read like an advertisement. All those TM tags, and claims, completely without in-line sources such as
 * both a source of clean, renewable energy and a roadway infrastructure.
 * The Solar Roadway™ will provide a secure, intelligent, self-healing power grid that will fund itself. The world’s dependency on fossil fuels and emission of greenhouse gases are major challenges faced by the world today.
 * Initial engineering calculations suggest the Solar Roadway™ will provide three times the current energy demand in the United States alone. 
 * Initial cost feasibility calculations are promising and are becoming more and more favorable as the cost and demand for crude oil continues to rise. Funding options for prototyping is currently being reviewed.
 * It also reads like WP:OR. Hope this helps jimfbleak (talk) 06:52, 22 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The original article also seemed US-centric, although that's nothing to do with the deletion, and may simply reflect your sources. I think if the claims stay, and can be given reliable independent sources, it's best to put the references in-line. Put at the end of the sentence, and as your reference section. Have a look at GA or FA for examples of good practice. jimfbleak (talk) 06:09, 23 September 2008 (UTC)