User talk:Scottwrites

Twing
I have made my concerns known on the talk page. I ususally trust my instncts, but in fairness, I carefully reviewed your article. Based on the information presented and my findings listed on the talk page, I am taking this article to AfD. You can address the concerns there, and of course you can continue to work to improve the article and bring it into conformity with Wikipedia standards, noting improvements in the AfD discussion, which may or may not change people's opinions. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 12:39, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Twing
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Twing Article Deletion Question
You wrote: You recently deleted an article on Twing. In the discussion, there seemed to be some valid reasons for considering such an action. However, I thought I had addressed them, and posted the reasoning in the article's talk page. The talk page was deleted as well, but I saved a copy and I'll put that info in below, since it's unclear as to where as to do so other than. The thing is, the talk page addressed the issues of concern and there didn't seem to be any further discussion or reasoning behind deletion taking such things into account. It's possible this information wasn't considered. I'd intentionally put it in the talk page as I thought I was following instructions saying not to edit the discussion page, and it's premature to head for Deletion review since there was no real discussion. In fact, the whole process is a bit over complicated, but it is what it is I suppose. In any case, I'll put the defense info below. If it's not accepted, what that tells me is that there's a fair amount or arbitrary application of the rules and I should instead suggest a bunch of other articles for deletion that seem to be much more in violation of the same rule sets you described for Twing.


 * See WP:SOFIXIT. Feel free to tag articles that you do not feel meet up with Wikipedia's stated standards. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 15:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Original defense.


 * Re: the Links concern: I have updated them to link properly.


 * Re: References Concern
 * The references concerning search engine theory, (for example Pirolli's book), mention hardly any particular engines. And are even light on examples of specific practical academic projects. They focus on the math. They're just theory for the most part; of which Twing is merely an illustration. But a reader curious as to the underpinnings of the theory behind the product's technology might be interested in this depth. In fact, it's what's notable about Twing. That it's attempting to use these concepts.
 * References must establish points in the article, especially notability. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 15:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Notability: I've added links to articles from reputable sources indicating that others of note see this as valuable new stuff. Ironically, I'd left such links out as I'd thought them to be overly commercial as I want to focus on the theory/science, etc. and when I have time would like to add more in that regard. The reason it's notable is because it's the only specialty search going across this content vertical using this kind of advanced filtering. Not only tons of value from a marketing/user perspective, but an example of how to use advanced filtering technology to disambiguate search results in social media spaces. That is the part that's interesting.
 * ''Notability here is reference to Wikipedia's notability criteria for web content and Wikipedia's notability criteria for organizations and companies. It's not as widely subjective as is inferred above. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 15:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Commercial/General Concerns/Fairness: Obviously, this is a commercial product. But it's not just a mashup of someone else's search fodder. The product is applying new concepts and new technology in original ways across an often ignored online social space. When one looks at some of the "me too" listings in List_of_search_engines, it would be all but unconscionable that something new like Twing.com wouldn't make the cut without seriously re-working that entire area as well. ''Again, if it doesn't genuinely belong here, feel free to tag it as such to allow other editors to pick up on it and review your concerns. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 15:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Scottwrites (talk) 15:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, the Vertical search article needs a ton of work, and I hope to get to that as well. (It's focused primarily on business vertical - which has value - but doesn't really break down the differences in vertical.) But... that's another article for another time.


 * ''The discussion was open for 5 days; you were invited to participate in the discussion at that time. If you would like a deletion review, please feel free to utilize that feature. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 15:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review: deleting admin response
I'm happy to move the deleted article to your user space, and have just done so. Since the article already failed a valid AfD process, with sufficient effort made to attempt to assess its notability, the copy is better suited to be worked on in your own user space (User:Scottwrites/Twing). Please don't recreate it in the main space yet. When you have worked on it to address the concerns above and are confident that it can pass Wikipedia's notability standards, let me or another administrator know, and we will review it for re-insertion into the main article space. Thanks for your cooperation, and happy editing! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 01:50, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll have to get back to you later on this. Meetings off-site today, plus family pet death are keeping me pretty preoccupied. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 15:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

My Response
I'm going to follow the Wikipedia [] standards and re-post this article. I've tried to go through the original concerned admin, and my mentor from the top of this talk page. But after getting no responses for weeks, I'm just going to put up the fixed version and see what happens.

Proposed deletion of Twing
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 * I'm going to remove the prod tag (you could have done the same thing, with a reasonable explanation), and if AndrewHowse wants to pursue it via AfD, all the better, since that will more efficently vett (sp?) the issue(s). - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 19:33, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Mister ****, I presume?
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 * Uh huh. You got my name right, but I cut it out. Just like you and many others, it's easy enough to figure out who I am just from my profile. But, for whatever reasons, I prefer the veneer of a pseudonym here. (I already disclosed relationship; name doesn't matter.) Regardless of any conflict, that doesn't make anything any less true or valuable. If, in the end of this, you all just zap it, I won't keep fighting it. (It's annoying as I thought I did a good job; used references and read all the rules, etc.) This exercise is something I've gone though as much or more out of curiosity then anything else and maybe to write about it elsewhere. (Because it's interesting and in some ways amusing, as I think I've satisfied everything and followed all the rules.)


 * Bottom line: I've done all I can. In the end, things apparently depend on the opinion of a couple of folks and that's about it. Either please help me figure out how to make it valid per your standards; which apparently I can't divine, or make the yank it decision and we'll be done. (But, if you yank this one, I'd also expect you to yank the others I've mentioned that suffer even worse from the similar rules. I've NO problem with editorial judgments going against me. I do have a problem with inconsistency.)

Thank you
Thanks for the great presentation on subprime from Miliken. Extremely helpful dataFarcaster (talk) 03:59, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Scottwrites (talk) 22:27, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Maria-snyder-model.jpg
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Snipped out the rest. I didn't update this photo. Or even know who this person is. This was some time ago now so I have no idea how that happened, but since there's no other abuse under my account, I'll just assume I left myself logged in somewhere rather than someone getting hold of password; which I've since changed.

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Thanks for catching / removing. The article has the proper image attached; this was just a badly named file. Scottwrites (talk) 18:39, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Keep.com


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Renaming articles
Hey, from what I can see it looks like AdKeeper is now Keep.com and this is really more of a retitling than a true website created from scratch. When that happens, we usually just rename the article in question with the new name of the website rather than create a new page for each name the page has gone under. However since there is a little bit of murkiness as to what is new and what isn't, I moved the article to your userspace. I'd probably recommend creating an article for the company "Keep Holdings" and just include AdKeeper and the various websites under that company name. The problem with a separate article for Keep.com is that ultimately the sources on the page aren't for Keep- they're for AdKeeper. While the website is essentially renamed, we can't really use the notability for the former incarnation to justify a separate article for the new one. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:15, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * In any case, I moved the article to User:Scottwrites/Keep.com for you. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:16, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Adaptly


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Nomination of ANCRA Marketing Model for deletion
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The WikiEagle - January 2022
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