User talk:Radleybobins

A tag has been placed on Guys and Dollies, 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, service or person and 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 article 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. Alasdair 08:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi. the article in question was deleted by me not as blatant advertising, but as an article where the notability of the subject was not established. Cheers. Lectonar 15:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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Guys and Dollies
The problem you have is that the article you wrote made no claim of particular notability for the business. I'm sure you'd agree that if I opened a shop in my bedroom, selling music by mail order, it would have no place in an encyclopedia. If, however, down the years it grew to become a massive international business (like Virgin Records perhaps) it should. So where do you draw the line? Wikipedia draws the line at business that pass WP:CORP. Have a good look at that and drop me a line whether or not you think Guys and Dollies passes WP:CORP. Cheers. --Dweller 16:01, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I've edit-conflicted here; so this was my comment: Hmmm, did you follow the link above, regarding notability; the appropriate one would be WP:CORP; I admit I do not see the notability, wikipediawise. Wikipedia is not an indescriminate source of knowledge. Also, let me ask you (and answer truthfully, please): are you in any way related to the business in question? This would constitute an conflict of interest. Regards. Lectonar 16:03, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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