User talk:RoundupResistance

Speedy deletion nomination of Bumpbows


A tag has been placed on Bumpbows, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave three refs which were respectively a press release, your own page and a sales site. None of these is an independent third party source. You are correct about the social media too, the only external link should be your main company page
 * I can see no evidence that the product is notable, such as sales figures, company profits or turnover, or numbers of staff. You don't even tell us where the company headquarters are, although I note that you use British English spelling.
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. You are right that anything that looks like an opinion rather than a fact, such as "beautiful", is promotional, and the "styles and colours" is unhelpful
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must declare it. If you work for or on behalf of the company, you are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:    . Please do not edit further until you answer this message.

I have to say that I have grave doubts whether this product or the company meet our notability criteria. Your text gives the impression that it's a tiny business with a handful of employees and small-scale production. If that's not the case, you need good independent references to confirm the facts.

I hope this clarifies Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:16, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Per H:L, this change you made to PC Card was unnecessary. Both forms are correct and neither is deprecated. That the Ab form (links to A but appears in the text as Ab) works is, I believe, a relatively recent change. Jeh (talk) 14:44, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

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