User talk:Postoaksavannah

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
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I am extremely sorry for my wrongful entries. I am NOT a "spammer" and do not want to be labeled as such! I'm just a t-shirt designer that has recently lauched a Christian t-shirt site and was trying to get my name out there. I tried to do it in a professional way, but obviously broke your rules. There is so much information on the wikipedia site that I can not understand all of it. Therefore, can anyone tell me if I can (or can't) create a legitimate biographical page for my company AND if so, how to do this withOUT being associated again with the "spammer" freaks? I simply want to make a page for my Christian Apparel Company, Soul Harvest: http://www.soulharvest.net/index.html. Thank you very much for any assistance you can give me.

Postoaksavannah (talk) 13:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No you can't post links to your website that sells clothing. As far as creating a "biographical" page goes you can't do that either because biography's are about people. You could do a page about your company but only if it is notable. If you type the name of your company into Google News does it bring up all the sources cited about it in published works? If your company cannot satisfy the notability guidelines then you can't have a page on it here. Sting au  Buzz Me...   13:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia's policies are long and complex, but rest assured that no one's mad at you. We've all made mistakes ourselves.
 * New companies basically never meet the notability guidelines. I think a typical rule for notability says that a business is notable when it has been mentioned in a news article that gets at least regional and preferably national coverage (so on the AP wire services, or multiple newspapers).  The story can be for "good" or "bad" reasons (you made a million dollars, or you got sued), but it has to have independent coverage that goes beyond the local area.  For new businesses, the notability requirements will probably not be met for some time (if ever).
 * Blessings in your new business endeavor,  WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing: Thank you so much for your kind reply. I now understand the notability guidelines. Again, I never meant to be flagged as spammer. I hope that someday I will be able to meet the guidelines and have my own page in the "book" of Wikipedia:)

Postoaksavannah (talk) 21:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)