User talk:Searchjohn

the article's talk page''' SearchJohn.com is a registered Search Engine company that exists since 2004, founded 2001. New Zealand Companies Office www.companies.govt.nz Company Name = Searchjohn Alexa.com Ranking 2,463,004 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.searchjohn.com%2F

Speedy deletion of User:Searchjohn
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can I have the article back that has been deleted. I spent all Saturday night writing this article and digging out old company office documents and IRD documents and I havnt saved the document I uploaded. I heard an interview with Jonny Welsh who said that everyone can write something for Wikipedia. I wasn't expecting that articles that took me 4 hours to write get deleted without warning. I will get my lawyer to post the artice about my company, that makes it hopefully more binding.

Tom, SearchJohn.com Limited --Searchjohn 08:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

November 2007
Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from articles that you have created yourself. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Auroranorth (sign) 08:08, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Help
ok, I try to make this as neutral as possible. I am not sure what I have to do to make the article more "encyclopedic". Any suggestions?

I want to contribute something in a neutral way, without oging overboard.

Do you want to see our official Income Tax Return or do you want our complete list of all our 20 websites we run?

What is needed? We are an internet company with the core business of internet search.

Tom Krieg, SearchJohn.com Limited
 * Firstly, the article doesn't belong on your userpage. Try your sandbox instead. Secondly, your company fails notability and WP:ORG. Thirdly, you may have a conflict of interest and finally, this may be blatant advertising. Thanks! Auroranorth (sign) 08:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Searchjohn/sandbox#About

can anyone now give us approval that we can finally post this Sandbox article into Wikipedia?

We have made this now as much to the point as possible and as technical as possible....no "blatant advertising" anywhere, just brief facts.....

Thanks Tom --Searchjohn 10:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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Bear in mind that two of Wikipedia's most important policies are notability and verifiability. A subject must be sufficiently notable to be worth including in the encyclopedia and that notability must be able to be verified through references to reliable sources.

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If you cannot find newspaper web sites that provide information for an article, then the subject is not notable or verifiable and almost certainly will be deleted. So your first job is to go find references. Sbowers3 14:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Notability of SearchJohn.com Limited:

1) The National Golf Association of the Phillipines has a 75x71 pixel banner of Golfhighway.com on the Front Page of their website http://www.ngapgolf.com. We did NOT pay for them to put our banner there nor do we have a rich uncle who is the president at that Golf Association. Note that this is the official national Golf Association of the Phillipines and not some random Golf Player of Golf Blogger. This banner is already there for several years, and thats because Golfhighway.com is a high quality Golf Website where we checked EVERY single link manually...(yes some links are broken...that happens..). Note furthermore that our website Golfhighway.com is extremely critical with Golf, because it is the ONLY Golf website that addresses the issue of Deforestation cause by Golf Courses.... (deforestation now at least the area of Belgium and it informs visitors that the world has lost 73 Billion m2 Forest in 2006.....). Now thats definitely a very critical Golf website here, BUT the National Golf Assocition of the Phillipines STILL puts our banner on the front page of their website, simply they know how much hard work we put into that and that we really try to have a fair view on the topic. If you are a Golfer you know HOW critical Golf Clubs and Golf Associations are... keep in mind that some Golf Clubs have rules that you can only join if 10 members recommend you and there is no veto from a member....so imagine how difficult it is to get mentioned on the Front Page of an official Golf Association with a banner!!!! Here is the Screenshot as a proof: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Ngapscreenshot.gif Note further that is is probably much more difficult to get on the front page of a Golf Association than to be mentioned in a random Golf Magazine that might just want to fill up some empty pages..... Golfhighway.com is run by SearchJohn.com Limited formerly Soccerhighway.com Limited.

2) Cork City FC Official Website:

we ran for several years a competition where we were asking visitors to nominate the "Best Soccer Website of the Year". Cork City FC obviously realised that our Soccer Website was doing a pretty good job indexing Soccer Websites worldwide and they found it noteworthy as a big irish Soccer Club to mention us.....remember we are NOT an irish soccer website, but we are located in New Zealand....

http://www.corkcityfc.ie/newsarchive/january2005.htm

 04 January 2005, 12:27 Website Wins Award <B>CorkCityFC.ie</B></FONT> has today been named <A href="http://www.soccerhighway.com/" target=_blank><B>Soccerhighway.com</B></A> <B>2004 Website Of The Year</B>. Previous winners of the award have been <A href="http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/" target=_blank><B>Liverpool FC</B></A> (2001) and <A href="http://www.asroma-addict.com/" target=_blank><B>AS Roma</B></A> (2003). The award is City's 2nd in as many months following recent success at the Eircom Goldenspider Awards. <BR><BR>Soccerhighway.com is a worldwide football website directory and manager Tom Krieg said "CorkCityFC.ie is absolutely brilliant both in      terms of soccer design, soccer content, soccer photos and has always lots       of interesting news. And the design does not go overboard so the loading       speed is really good as well". </FONT></P></TD>

Soccerhighway.com is run by SearchJohn.com Limited formerly Soccerhighway.com Limited.

--Searchjohn 20:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

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This was supplied only for INTERNAL use!!!! It was only supplied to prove the point that the National Golf Association of the Phillipines put our Banner Golfhighway.com FREE OF CHARGE on their Frontpage..... this was the reaction to a statement that I got that my company is not worth the coverage in Wikipedia. Could someone give me a statement what else is required as a proof to be listed for an internet company that has been around for AGES.....we had 40 websites running at some stage....--Searchjohn 09:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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Futebol.info is the website run by SearchJohn.com Limited!!!!!! Thats us!!!! At the moment we are TESTING the Sandbox and obviously want these Screenshots in the real version when we got the green light for the publishing. Can someone give me feedback what else we need to change until our entry gets published in Wikipedia... Reminds me of oral exams in school. WE ARE SCIENTISTS AND NOT!!!! LINGUISTS!!!!!!!

--Searchjohn 09:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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Searchjohn.gif is the website screenshot run by SearchJohn.com Limited!!!!!! Thats us!!!! At the moment we are TESTING the Sandbox and obviously want these Screenshots in the real version when we got the green light for the publishing. Can someone give me feedback what else we need to change until our entry gets published in Wikipedia... Reminds me of oral exams in school. WE ARE SCIENTISTS AND NOT!!!! LINGUISTS!!!!!!!

--Searchjohn 09:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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I'll try to help
Checking back, I see that you need a little more help. It was almost by accident that I came back here. Other people who could help you won't usually read your talk page and won't see your questions. The "user" who notified you about the image problems was a robot or "bot" as indicated by the last three letters of its name. It can't read your questions to it.

To request help you can visit the WP:Help desk or insert the tag helpme on this talk page.

I'm not an expert on images but I think you can get around your problems not by citing fair use, but by granting a GFDL license making them free for anyone to use. Again, I don't know the details but you can ask for help about how to do it.

I recommend that you read Wikipedia's policies on notability, verifiability, and reliable sources. What your sandbox article needs is references to articles in newspapers that describe your company. Have any newspapers or magazines considered your company notable enough to write about your company? The fact that you may have created a great golf web site or soccer web site might show that you produce notable web sites, but does not demonstrate that your company is notable. Please realize that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a directory. It tries to provide information that might be still be notable 50 years from now; it does not try to list every single good or even great company.

Sbowers3 14:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)