User talk:MarlinNoel

Proposed deletion of Ifly15


The article Ifly15 has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails WP:GNG: The only source cited is to a Blogger-hosted press release with pictures and text provided by a company representative."

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 * there are more links than only the company page - company representative! the second link is not a blogger page! it is a very important site for sailors - its a web magazine.
 * Please inform youself befor proposing to delete that page. Otherwise there are enough pages to delete: Nacra 17, flying phantom (catamaran), .....


 * Yes, you should inform yourself. http://www.catsailingnews.com/2016/10/ifly-15-in-detail.html is a blogger page, it mentions blogger at the bottom, and has a blogger favicon in the browser. Furthermore, it even says the pictures and text were supplied by Michael Miller of iflysail.com. That isn't an acceptable source, that's a press release. We need sources that are independent of the subject, not written by the subject or its representatives.
 * All the sources you added were brief mentions, and the only citation was to XS Sailing, an aggregator of posts (blogs and news regardless of reliability or independence), which doesn't qualify as in-depth coverage.
 * Because the article was only a few sentences, I have merged the content and the photo into the main sailing hydrofoil article, and redirected ifly15 to that section. I believe the boat deserves to be mentioned in that article, but I am not convinced that it warrants its own stand-alone article.
 * If you want to try to write a more detailed stand-alone article, please do it in your sandbox or create Draft:iFLY15 and submit it for review via Articles for creation. If you have any association at all with the company, then you have a conflict of interest (see WP:COI for guidance). In that case, Articles for Creation is the only venue available for an editor with a conflict of interest to get an article published on the English Wikipedia. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:26, 14 July 2017 (UTC)