User talk:Griffink

A tag has been placed on Methodist Medical Center, requesting that it be 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, service or person and 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.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Marasmusine 15:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Well it reads exactly like an advert, it is unsourced, and has been subsequently deleted by another editor, Encyclopaedia articles don't normally give contact information, mission statements etc. I'll reply at more length tomorrow morning, had a long day, too tired tonight. Jimfbleak 20:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, the article started with contact information, which isn’t even needed in an encyclopaedia article. It is completely unreferenced, and the text seems to be based on the hospital's website, hardly an independent neutral source (I haven’t checked in enough detail to see whether the article could also have been deleted as a copyright violation).


 * It is full of unsourced advert-style phrases like


 * Methodist Medical Center is committed to ranking in the top 5% of medical centers in the U.S.
 * Heart Care - A leader in heart care,
 * Heart Attack - Methodist Medical Center’s Heart Attack program has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care quality.
 * Diagnostic Services - State-of-the-art diagnostic services
 * the area’s most experienced sleep disorders center
 * Methodist Medical Center offers comprehensive healthcare services designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life, including:


 * I could go on, but that’s enough. Some of these statements may be verifiable, but there is no checkable reference in the article to support them. The danger of basing your article on the organization’s publicity is that it will read like publicity. There is nothing independent in the article, and only praise, with no criticism – it must be the only hospital in the world never to have got anything wrong.


 * One very minor point – you shouldn’t sign articles. Jimfbleak 05:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)