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CipherMail
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Speedy deletion nomination of CipherMail


A tag has been placed on CipherMail, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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July 2014
Hello, I'm GimliDotNet. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. GimliDotNet ( Speak to me, Stuff I've done )  19:34, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Reasons
Let's get one thing out of the way first. The articles about the "large commercial companies" are just that. About them. Not by them. If you look closely, some of them say things that the companies would never post in a month of Sundays. OK. Now for copyright. Wikipedia is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 for free reuse (including modification) by anyone anywhere. The only restriction is that Wikipedia must be mentioned as a source. Every time you click 'save' here, you are licensing your edit under CC-BY-SA. The company's site says "Copyright 2008-2014..." on it. That means that it can't be used here. Please see WP:COPYVIO for more. Material CAN be licensed, but yours would still not be suitable. We don't use 'we' and 'our' in articles, for a start - that screams 'directory entry!!!', and Wikipedia is not a directory. It's an encyclopaedia. Producing open source software is irrelevant. You could be making ham and mustard sandwiches, selling religious books, or organising a 'help old ladies across roads' day - or running a multi-national corporation noted for sweat shops and shoddy goods. all the same. No promotion - and no attacks. Then there's another problem. Unlike in social media and directories, we have a nasty requirement - notability. Our definition of it, too. Please see WP:CORP for corporate notability (and WP:NSOFT in case you decide to post about the software itself). In either case, there must be reliable independent sources to prove the notability - see WP:RS. (These must also be provided by anyone claiming that working for BloggsCo is the nearest thing going to slavery, and that the socks they make go into holes on the fifth wearing. And similar things. Negative stuff is found in articles, but only if it's referenced properly. And there's nothing the subject of the article can do to remove it. If they do remove it, someone (or a bot) will put it back.) A lot of people misunderstand Wikipedia. They think that because anyone (who isn't blocked or site-banned and who has internet, of course) can edit, they can post anything. They can, but equally, we can remove it if it doesn't fit. Do some Googling, read the policies (including WP:COI about conflict of interest), and have a think. Peridon (talk) 20:01, 12 July 2014 (UTC)