User talk:Holly Hitch

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Holly Hitch/sandbox/Hitch Marketing


A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Holly Hitch/sandbox/Hitch Marketing, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service. This is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages — user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources or advertising space. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

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 * Hi. I'm sorry, but I have deleted the draft article at User:Holly Hitch/sandbox/Hitch Marketing, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was written in blatant marketing speak (I know a lot of marketing professionals seem to think everyone talks like that, but we really don't, and it is entirely unsuitable for an encyclopedia). You said you thought it was in a similar style to the Saatchi & Saatchi article, but I've read through that and it really isn't the same at all - I see nothing there along the lines of "with a social conscience", "purpose-driven professionals", "with education and capacity building central to its ethos", etc (and that's just from the first two paragraphs). An article about a company needs to read as if it's been written by a disinterested third party, and not by someone from the company trying to make it sound good. The next issue is that it was also a copyright violation, as the exact same text has been previously published elsewhere on the internet without being suitably released. I'm guessing the text belongs to the company itself, but Wikipedia will not accept material unless it is released under a licence at least as free as CC-BY-SA. (In reality, it's not worth pursuing that, as the text is unsuitable anyway as I explained above.) Next, your username suggests that you have an association with the company, which means you would need to comply with Wikipedia's policies on paid editing and conflict of interest - you can find them at WP:Paid editing and WP:COI. Finally, we come to notability, and Wikipedia only accepts articles about companies that can satisfy the minimum requirements explained at WP:NCORP. And that notability must be supported by multiple independent reliable sources (as explained at WP:RS). Your draft did not demonstrate notability and had no sources other than what is essentially a press release and an agency contact site. If you look at Saatchi & Saatchi, you'll see sources from the BBC, national newspapers, a book about the company, etc. Anyway, I wrote more than I'd expected here, but I hope it explains the reasons for the deletion. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:28, 19 October 2017 (UTC)