User talk:Sam sorrells

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Hello, Sam sorrells, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Gordon Creek Brewery, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Gordon Creek Brewery


A tag has been placed on Gordon Creek Brewery requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. BiH (talk) 12:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014
Hello, Sam sorrells. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Gordon Creek Brewery, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —Josh3580talk/hist 16:33, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Your article
No, it's not tagged as promotional (although I tend to get edgy at 'offers'...). It's tagged because it doesn't show any notability. Wikipedia is an Encyclopaedia, not a directory or social media, and subjects have to show some notability. It's a brewery. OK. It probably brews good beer (almost anyone could brew better beer than the mainstream US and UK mass brewers...). OK. Does it pass WP:CORP? Not at the moment. You need independent reliable sources (WP:RS) to show that it's been talked about, won things, is reasonably widely noted - but without sounding like a PR department after a visit and samples... Other breweries may have articles. (There must be thousands that don't.) Please read WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. We have 4.4 million articles (no, I haven't counted them). Some things do slip past the patrollers. Not many now - they're quite a good team. A lot of people don't know that we have patrollers examining new pages, edits by new accounts, random articles (great fun doing that - it led to one of our random patrollers finding an obscure hoax that had been up for over six years because only the perpetrator would know about it as the title would not have been searched by anyone), and even link following (click a link in an article, look at where it takes you, then click a link in that article...). Yes, we do have lives outside as well. This beats TV. Anyway, if this article goes, I can restore it to your user space on request. It won't be Google linked, but you can find the references etc (or I can point you at a good rescuer - she can't rescue 100% of things, but I've seen her work wonders...). Good luck with the brewing. I'm a real ale and real cider man myself (see my user page), which is why I haven't deleted the article. Unfortunately, someone else will. Peridon (talk) 19:06, 30 January 2014 (UTC)