User talk:Mattmartin12

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A tag has been placed on IPodSweepstakes.com, 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. esanchez, Sign your name here! 03:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

On questions left on the article talk page
The article is problematic in not only in that it's promotional (criterion G11 for speedy deletion), but it also doesn't have anything really that proves the subject's notability (criterion A7 for speedy deletion). The sources that are presented are dubious: blogs and forums are not considered reliable sources for purposes of Wikipedia. (Further, they discuss isolated incidents, which are not exactly a sign of reliable information either.) Traffic ratings are subject to interpretation and are not used for measuring web site notability. The article does not even explain why the company is notable in first place; there's no article for them either, it seems. G11 applies in that the article would also need a rewrite; it is now essentially an advertisement that doesn't really much about the site, and contains information that is not encyclopedic ("Ways to win" is how-to material, which isn't encyclopedic and would be removed anyway). It's essentially an encouragement for people to visit the site. Hope this helps; I'd recommend you to read the web notability information and criteria for speedy deletion to know why this material was deleted. Thank you and happy editing! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 10:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Gulfstream Internet, 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. Corvus cornix 03:46, 14 July 2007 (UTC)