User talk:RescuePad

Hi RescuePad. I saw your message on the deletion page and though I'd drop by. The thing is that there are many pages on wikipedia that are deletion worthy, but have not yet been nominated. Another words, just because advertizing pages exist is not a good precedent for allowing other advertizing pages to remain. With regard to the page you created, I think it does not meet the notability criteria for keeping. We are building an encyclopedia, so the criteria is notability, which grows out of the desire to have articles only on things that are worthy of an encyclopedia rather than a free webhosting service, blog or commercial website. Please stick around and contribute to other articles and don't let this first experience drive you away. However, if you think the page is notable enough, you can provide evidence at its listing where I found your message. Note some of the policy considerations that might be relevant for your article: WP:CORP, WP:Notability, What Wikipedia is not. I am placing some other more general links below in a welcome message which are a good place to learn about the encyclopedia in general.--Fuhghettaboutit 22:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Fuhghettaboutit. A couple people recommended we create a listing for RescuePad here, so I came over and looked around. One of the folks who sent me here was a person at Backcountry.com - which has a listing here. I am assuming that page falls within the Wikipedia guidelines? Our page has been labelled blatant advertising, but there are so many pages with descriptions of particular products here that don't seem to be advertisements at all. So I realize there is a fine line. I'm going to read again the information you sent to try to figure out how to get on the other side of that line.

Thank you so much again for responding. I haven't quite figured out how to use this site yet. But I'm getting there.

p.s. I can't figure out how to contact you directly ...