User talk:Software-surprise

June 2008
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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Versa geek  06:32, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * --Ronz (talk) 14:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Software-surprise


A tag has been placed on User:Software-surprise, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that 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 User:Software-surprise 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 independent 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.

The Links on your Userpage are in violation of Wikipedia policy against having advertising on its pages (example:one linked website is 'for sale'). The red box placed on your Userpageand this notice are indications of concern and tell you how to proceed.
 * Shearonink (talk) 03:28, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

How to resolve?
Shearonink,

I want to rectify this. It's been some time since I've tried to create content here. I saw previous comments so I was trying to avoid that again which is why I used user feedback which I don't recall was available back then. Regarding the article, I had researched the Web and noticed that sites like search engines and some other sites were using more screenshots to add to marketing, so all I did was put the two words together since the method already existed. Those citations I've added are independent. It really doesn't matter to me who creates the content for this existing marketing method. Regarding the profile, how can I change it (add the \{{hangon}\} Thanks. Software-surprise (talk) 06:04, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Your userpage was deleted because it appeared to exist solely to advertise external services- very much not what a userpage is for. Conerning your article, neither of the cited sources actually mention the term- is it something you have thought of yourself? Wikipedia is not the place for original thought. J Milburn (talk) 15:16, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey there, a couple of things...
 * As J Milburn posted, Wikipedia is not the place for original thought, it is an encyclopedia.
 * If you want to re-create a user page and account with your name 'Software-surprise', you need to first contact the deleting administrator: NativeForeigner.
 * If you want to add a hang-on tag in the future, hit the edit tab up near the top (on same line as 'Read'/'New section'/etc.) That will open up an Editing page.  You then place the tag (meaning the coding which creates it, ie. " – " and "helpme") at the top of the Editing box.  That will alert any other editors and administrators that you are working on correcting whatever the situation is.
 * In addition to Notability, the What Wikipedia is not page was very useful to me when I started editing and writing articles for Wikipedia.
 * Any asserted facts that appear in a Wikipedia article must be verifiable, reliable and neutral. The Verifiability page was another great resource when I was trying to figure out what sources were appropriate for Wikipedia.
 * In my opinion, as it now stands the Screenshot-marketing draft-article on your userpage does need additional work. The two references cited do not mention the actual term and the External link does not directly address the term but instead is a link to an internet marketing trade association.
 * Shearonink (talk) 16:11, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks to you both for the info and tips. I'll wait until the term becomes more mainstream. Hopefully, I can revisit that page then, unless someone else wants to create it.

Thanks again for your assistance. Software-surprise (talk) 18:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)