User talk:Peter.Dan.Savage

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Hello, Peter.Dan.Savage, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Fidus Systems, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Fidus Systems


A tag has been placed on Fidus Systems 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 read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. red dogsix (talk) 03:18, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Your article - some notes
You said, "I see no reason why our company page should not be allowed to be created, when many other company pages are easily accessible on Wikipedia.". Unfortunately, the existence of one article (or several articles) doesn't mean that any other article should exist too. Please see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. For a company to have an article, it must pass WP:CORP, and there was nothing there to indicate that it did. If there is a pass, it must be backed up with reliable independent sources WP:RS. I've looked through 12 pages of Google hits, and in that couldn't see anything that looked like an RS - they seemed to be profiles, listings, PR stuff, and so on. In certain industries, the rather more backroom ones, coverage in reliable independent sources is not easy to find. I remember an article a company whose products were on millions of tables every day in the USA - but as they made own-brand goods for bit chains, no-one had heard of them. I did notice that you didn't say what Fidus actually does. In a specialised directory, maybe that would be OK, but not in an encyclopaedia. Here, we don't really want to know about your 'Guiding Principles' - they look like promotion (as do Mission Statements - even from Missions - and other such things that PR people love). We're not all that interested in your management team or directors, unless they are notable in their own right. We would be more interested in a neutral description of what the company is there for. But only if the company is shown to be notable - this is quite unlike AboutUs, Facebook, etc. Please also note that writing about subjects you are very close to is not recommended (but not forbidden) - please see WP:COI. It's difficult to be neutral, and to know what an encyclopaedia wants as opposed to what the company wants (usually two diametrically opposed things...). In addition, if you are being paid to edit, this should be disclosed under WP:TOS. Peridon (talk) 11:45, 15 April 2015 (UTC)