User talk:Kgriffin1

A tag has been placed on AVOS Life Sciences, 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. Marwood 18:02, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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The purpose of our creating a page on Wikipedia was not to advertise our products nor our company. As we create our reports, particularly our TMO reports, we are looking to post portions of the reports on Wikipedia, particularly those that would be of value to the lay public due to the fact that they provide information regarding a specific disease or therapeutic area. The idea is to contribute information either by posting material directly onto the page or through the use of the external links section. Our goal is to gain credibility as a reliable source of information in the areas we study while meeting Wikipedia’s encyclopedic standards of information. The AVOS page on Wikipedia will contain links to the Wikipedia entries of each area of study, as well as others to establish our credibility as a reliable source of information. Understanding Wikipedia’s strict standards, we decided to have two people with backgrounds in journalism compose the AVOS page, as opposed to someone in a marketing or sales capacity who may have contaminated the information with more self-serving language. We hope to work with Wikipedia to improve our page in any way that will allow us to maintain our presence. If you have any advice, comments, or questions, please let me know.

Kgriffin1 20:17, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I'm not clear on how this organization meets the notability guidelines. I looked at the sources provided, but there are none there that would qualify as significant coverage by a nontrivial independent source.  In two of them, I couldn't even find where AVOS was mentioned; even if I missed it, AVOS was definitely not the primary subject.  Are there sources that would confirm the importance of this organization? -FisherQueen (Talk) 21:20, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I share the doubts above. You have to show that other people already know of your company and refer to it, in third party published sources. What is presently provided in the way of references in entirely press releases, or incidental mentions which do prove that the company exists, but not that it is important. Trade magazines of established reputation would do fine. Given that my expert colleague could not find them, I must delete the article; when you have the references, write it in a way that describes you, not promotes you and feel free to re-insert it. As a guideline, if it sounds like something you would hand out to prospective customers, then the tone is wrong. DGG (talk) 03:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)