User talk:Retaildesigner

I am a retail designer for a living. I design retail stores and have studied retail design extensively. I am also an expert in retail design history, especially with Dominick's, Meijer, Loblaw's and Omni Superstore. My information conveyed is based on my studies over the years. I have a degree from Purdue University in Interior Design BA 1999.

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I have added the reasons for image Image:Omni Great Lakes Seafood.jpg to the upload page The author has given me permission to use these images on wikipedia. (Retaildesigner 19:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC))

Where did I try advertising? I am trying to give facts about a closed supermarket chain called Omni. I want to be sure I do this correctly. I only want to verify the page about Omni Superstore. The store no longer exists and thusly it would be impossible to be advertising for Omni. The store was eliminated in 1997. Retaildesigner 00:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Edits such as this and this. Links to commercial sites are normaly avoided, you can reference the External links policy. --Hu12 00:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi HU12, thank you for the advice. I wasn't trying to advertise Soundsphere and I will take that out of there, I was just trying to explain the sound system that the store possessed. With my other link, which the former Omni employee stated to me, is still the current day to day paging process and call handling that occurs at the current Dominick's stores. Any advice on how to cite that? Thank you, this has been tons of fun. I hope I am doing ok so far? (Retaildesigner 01:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC))
 * Thanks for the reply. Your doing fine, My error then. Have a look a look at WP:CITE, should be what you need. Have fun!--Hu12 01:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi there, what needs to be cleaned up on my Omni Superstore page? I think I fixed the grammar mistake. I saw a whole bunch of stuff got copied into my references and I cleaned it up. Hopefully that was the problem. Thank you

(Retaildesigner 04:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC))

I have added more facts about Omni Superstore on my page based on an Omni Phone directory from 1993. I added the locations of their stores and their current conditions based on field visits to the locations.

(Retaildesigner 04:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC))

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Per Image:Omni_Main_area.jpg, This file should be pertain to Fair Use as it is the only photo available that shows Omni Superstore from 1986, as the store is no longer in existence and there are no other ways to show this store with HID lighting. Also this picture represents a particular point in the buildings history, this is a photograph of the stores Grand Opening and no other photos are available than this one. After contacting Dominick's, the former parent of Omni Superstore, they told me they are no photos of this existing space currently in their facility. This book is no longer published and no longer available from the publisher Visual Reference Publications.

(Retaildesigner 14:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC))

Via E-mail, Author Released his permission for me to use this photo Omni_Great_Lakes_Seafood.jpg per the Omni Superstore wikipedia entry only. The author is Martin Pegler. (Retaildesigner 18:38, 7 February 2007 (UTC))

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THIS IS MY PHOTO, I TRIED CORRECTING THE COPYRIGHT USAGE, BUT YOU KEEP SENDING ME THESE MESSAGES. IT IS MY PHOTO, YOU CAN SHOW IT ON HERE!!!!!!!! Retaildesigner (talk) 20:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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 * Glad to have you aboard! There are also some great templates for citing source we use. The most frequently used is as well as others for maps, books, news, etc. That's what I've used in the other places in articles. Feel free to go through M-6 if you want, and see if those lists can be turned into prose or something better. Trivia sections like that aren't well-liked on WikiPedia. As always, any questions, just ask away. I'm online for a while each day at some point usually. Imzadi1979 (talk) 15:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of E-MetroTel
Hello Retaildesigner,

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If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Julietdeltalima  (talk)  16:53, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Can you please assist me on how to make this E-MetroTel page more wikipedia friendly?


 * You could try reading the guidelines and following them. You can get further advice from Teahouse. Deb (talk) 19:40, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree with Deb's comment above. Reading established articles about businesses so that you understand what encyclopedia entries published on Wikipedia look and read like is important—lists of bullet points and services are appropriate for a professional directory but not an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is intended to be an objective, marketing-free reference tool, not an advertising or business promotion service. All the best--  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  22:48, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

I read up on the criteria and I came across Shoretel. What if I was to follow the same structure as Shoretel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShoreTel Is this an appropriate article? It hasn't had any tags for deletion.


 * The Shoretel article isn't perfect, but it does have independent references and no blatantly promotional wording that I can see. Deb (talk) 16:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your time Deb, I will follow this article more closely and follow the other non promotional methods.....and get those independent references! I appreciate your help. Have a good day.

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I don't understand? I wrote this article as least biased as possible and cited numerous sources. I referred to the Shoretel article that DeblDeb said was somewhat good to follow? Why the heck doesn't meet the standards? I also followed all of the instructions for writing an encyclopedic article. Are you only doing this because I am not representing a big company like Cisco or Shoretel?

This is from Deb:

The Shoretel article isn't perfect, but it does have independent references and no blatantly promotional wording that I can see. Deb (talk) 16:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

I have purposely wrote this article with facts that can be proved from the independent resources I cited. Where did I go wrong here? :(

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