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Re: Raketu deletion
Hi. Given your gracious concession at Articles for deletion/Raketu, I thought I'd take a moment to explain why the community is "rather strict about adherence to policy." Wikipedia's rapidly increasing popularity has given it a high position in Google rankings, which in turn has recently made it a very popular target for spammers. Since the purpose of Wikipedia is not to provide free advertising services, we've had to take a firm stand to fight this onslaught. It's obvious from your response that you did not intend to spam (most spammers fight tooth-and-nail to keep their articles listed), but we still have to enforce the policies consistently and firmly to have any chance of fighting back the actual spam. So it's not just that we're enforcing the rules for the sake of enforcing the rules. These particular rules have to be enforced to help combat a serious, major, ongoing problem. Spammers are smart, and if we start to grant exceptions for well-intended articles, the spammers will instantly all start to pretend to be innocent, well-intended editors. Xtifr tälk 23:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

VoipStunt
I've added the "prod" template to the article VoipStunt, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:VoipStunt. You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Jehochman (Talk/Contrib) 04:48, 25 December 2006 (UTC)