User talk:Jameswilson111

Portrait Professional
Hello, Jameswilson111, and welcome to Wikipedia. An article you recently created, Portrait Professional, has been tagged for speedy deletion because its content is clearly written to promote a company, product, or service. This article may have been deleted by the time you see this message. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising service. Thank you. --  Merope  16:17, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I was asked by a friend who works for this company to write an impartial piece on it. I have expressed as much negative comment as positive, and I have focused heavily on the more interesting side of how it works rather than what it represents commercialy. I explicitly didn't reference price, nor did I place any links to the site.

Can you please tell me what you don't like about it so that I can put up a fair assessment of the product that Wikipedia finds acceptable?

re. Portrait Professional
I forgot to sign my earlier comment, which may be why you have not yet replied. So here we go - please let me know what I should do to the Portrait Professional text (which I have now lost because you deleted it - lol!) in order for it to be more appropriate for Wikipedia. Thanks - Jameswilson111 17:23, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I am sorry for the delay, James--I have a lot of issues that need my attention right now, on-wiki and off. The article uses a lot of advertising language, and seems to read like the back of the product package.  I am also concerned that the product itself may not be notable--you might want to look at our guidelines for notability of software.  If you disagree with the deletion, you may request a deletion review, where other admins and editors will review the text and determine whether the article should be restored or should remain deleted.  --  Merope  19:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * James, what you might want to do is to create the article in your namespace (e.g., User:Jameswilson111/PortraitProfessional) and then I can look over it before you submit it to the article mainspace. You can, of course, just skip this step and resubmit it.  If you want, I can restore the version of the article I deleted to the aforementioned place so you can work with that rather than starting over.  Just let me know.  Thanks for being so understanding!  It's really difficult to get started in editing Wikipedia, and I appreciate your patience and civility.  --  Merope  13:03, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The article is now at User:Jameswilson111/PortraitProfessional. You can edit it as much as you like and then we can move it to the mainspace of the encyclopedia.  Let me know if you have any other questions!  I'm also going to put a welcome message on here which contains some helpful links for new users.  Cheers!  --  Merope  17:27, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

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User:Jameswilson111/PortraitProfessional
I have added a "" template to the article User:Jameswilson111/PortraitProfessional, 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). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Calton | Talk 04:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)