User talk:Paul Harmon

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Copyright problem: Business process management
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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:44, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of BPTrends
A tag has been placed on BPTrends requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for organizations and companies.

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August 2009
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 * I've read the material you placed into the above-captioned article and thought I would explain what was going on. What has been requested, and lack of which is the reason the article is going to be deleted, is reliable sources that prove notability.  Essentially, a basic principle of Wikipedia is that all articles have to have references whereby arm's-length third-party experts state in reliable sources (not things like blogs or forums) that the subject is somehow better than, in this case, its competitors or rivals.  (Or significantly worse, but that's rare.)  Since you seem to be saying that such proof is likely to exist, I thought you should have a chance to add it, so I'm not going to immediately delete the article -- but the next administrator who comes along may do so.  If this happens, and you want to work on the article, drop me a note (by clicking on the word "talk" after my signature), tell me the name of the article and I'll retrieve the deleted content for you into a temporary work space we call a "sandbox".  Incidentally, if you had managed to figure out how to remove the tag, it would have been put back by an automatic program -- they're meant to remain in place.  If there's any questions you have, you might start by following the links in this paragraph for specific information or, for general background, by reading WP:Your first article or [WP:Why was my article deleted?.  And, if there's anything further after you read those, leave me a note.  Accounting4Taste: talk 22:25, 26 August 2009 (UTC)