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Speedy deletion nomination of The Big Picture magazine
A tag has been placed on The Big Picture magazine, 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 that 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 Big Picture magazine 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 independent 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. Alvestrand (talk) 20:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Re:why did you delete information for "the big picture" magazine
Hi Gsharpx. Although it may have not been your intent, The Big Picture magazine read like an advertisement. Here on Wikipedia, we have a policy in which advertising/spam is speedy deleted per deletion criterion G11. Please note that articles for deletion are judged on their own merit, not in comparison to other articles (See WP:OTHERSTUFF). You are certainly welcome to resubmit the article, but please revise the text so that it complies with the policies and guidelines noted at WP:ADS and WP:MOS - otherwise, you run the risk of having the article deleted again. -  F ASTILY  (T ALK ) 03:13, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Note also that Wikipedia has conflict of interest policies. In general, it's much better if someone unaffiliated with the magazine writes about it than to have a magazine staff member write about it. --Alvestrand (talk) 05:24, 27 August 2009 (UTC)