User talk:Rtortore

A tag has been placed on Road-apples, 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 page 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. NeilN 03:53, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Road-apples
Richard, even if an organization is a not-for-profit, an article that is written with a promotional tone -- for example, writing in the first person, such as "Our mandate is to enjoy..." -- is not the proper format for an encyclopedia. Before resubmitting the article, I'd suggest reading Wikipedia's notability guidelines for organizations. If R-A does not meet the minimum requirements of the guideline (i.e. non-trivial coverage by multiple reliable sources), then it is likely that the article won't last long here. Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions. Cheers, Caknuck 04:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)