User talk:Snailshoes

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Hi Snailshoes. I'm really glad that you are taking the time to discuss this issue and trying to understand the approach of other editors. The wiki process wouldn't work otherwise. As for why I tagged the Informative Graphics article: it was nothing personal against either you or the company. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia though, and while it is not an official policy, there are guidelines about how notable a company should be to merit inclusion. From my understanding of the guidelines, which you can find here, Informative Graphics as presented in the article is not notable enough to merit inclusion in Wikipedia. Now, as both the tag and this set of guidelines mention, the article can be modified/expanded/cleaned-up to provide information on the company's notability. If that information is already present in the article, it can and should be made more prominent. As to why your article was tagged when others like it are not, there are a few reasons. One, I'm human, and so are my fellow editors. We individually review new articles, or find articles by chance. The guidelines I referred to above begin by noting that "Many Wikipedians are wholly averse to the use of Wikipedia for advertising, and 'Wikipedia articles are not advertisements' is an official policy of long standing." Some of us are a bit overzealous in defense of that policy, perhaps, and yet we cannot review every article for adherence to these guidelines. I'm sorry if the result looks hypocritical. Again, thanks for using dialogue and understanding, and please stick around! -Fsotrain09 05:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Content Sealed Format


The article Content Sealed Format has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Non notable format invented by a non notable company."

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