User talk:Ovguide

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Howdy! I've deleted the Ovguide article you've enthusiastically recreated 4 times. While I removed it under the WP:CSD General criteria 11 (which pertains to using Wikipedia to advertise), I'd like to note that it also fails to meet our notability requirements for websites (WP:WEB), which is useful for determining if a website should have an article, even if it's not an advertisement. I note that your website's Alexa rating of 56,000+ seems to indicate that it's unlikely to meet this criteria in part, but I'd encourage you to review the rest of the guideline to better understand that this wasn't some guy with a grudge against video sites. Best regards, C HAIRBOY (☎) 20:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Getting OVGuide Listed
OVGuide.com should be listed in Wikipedia.

1.) We are in TIME magazine as one of the top 10 best sites in the world for 2006. http://www.time.com/time/topten/2006/full_list.html This is clearly a notable independent award. Other than getting picked as person of the year, or getting a Nobel prize, I don't see how we can get more recognition.

2.) I am willing to tone down the article however you may see fit to avoid it reading like an advertisement. Every entry for a website in Wikipedia could be viewed as an ad, since it promotes it, so there must be a way we can be listed as an "encyclopedia" type entry.

3.) Regarding Alexa rank. As you must know, if you throw enough money on ads, you can buy just about any rank you want. A listing in Time Magazine should carry much more weight. We are a self-funded site with no advertising budget. However, we beat the traffic numbers of dozens of multi-million dollar well funded video site (I won't mention names). What sets us apart is that we are not another "cookie-cutter" YouTube clone. There are already way too many of them. We are the only major video website listing portal on the web and that is one of the main reasons we are in TIME, who recognized our unique contribution to the web and society as a whole. We truly open up peoples eyes to a new world of video that goes well beyond viral video.

4.) The site was just launched about 4 months ago, so a 3 month Alexa rank is not very predictive of anything. If you look at our weekly average, we are at 21,000. The sites now gets over 50,000 visits per day. We have had days with an Alexa daily rank of 10,000.

Please let me know how we can get listed. I'm hoping this public forum will give us a fair chance with more than one person deciding our ultimate fate. We have been boxed in this section for over 2 months now. Is anyone looking at it?

Image copyright problem with Image:Ovguidewiki1.jpg
Thank you for uploading Image:Ovguidewiki1.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 00:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Ovguidewiki1c.jpg
Thank you for uploading Image:Ovguidewiki1c.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Polly (Parrot) 00:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Ovguidewiki1c.jpg
A tag has been placed on Image:Ovguidewiki1c.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on  explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Polly (Parrot) 00:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)