User talk:Particle/Archive Apr 2007

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snoyes 19:15, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Test particle 06:08, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on The Guide To Selling Your Music In The iTunes Music Store, 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 or service and which 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. Realkyhick 06:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * This is spam. Intentional or not (and I suspect it is intentional), it is blatant advertising, or "spam." Whether or not it is a real book is irrelevant; in fact, if it were not real, it would be listed instead as a hoax, not spam. A "sensible outline" likely won't make any difference. The Amazon sales rank is around 286,000, which doesn't help it with notability issues, either. If it reads like an advertisement, it is an advertisement, and qualifies for deletion. Realkyhick 07:00, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Like I said, whether or not it is a real book is irrelevant. Not all real books belong at Wikipedia, only those that meet notability standards. And even for those that do, articles about them that are written like an advertisement (such as this one) are still not acceptable. There doesn't have to be a "buy button" to qualify as spam; this is a straw man argument that you have set up which has no merit whatsoever. It is also telling that you created the article about the author, Simon Higgs, and created a category (which will also likely be deleted, since it only has one possible listing) for Higgs' books. This has all the tell-tale signs of an article written solely to promote a book, and Wikipedia is not the place for that. Realkyhick 07:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Dynaflow 08:25, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

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If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.)  -- Dynaflow  09:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)