User talk:Tjralph

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Speedy deletion nomination of Thomas J. Ralph


A tag has been placed on Thomas J. Ralph, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Thomas J. Ralph
I have deleted your article, Thomas J. Ralph for a number of reasons:
 * The article was a copy-paste of http://www.tjralph.com/About_Us. Even if you own that website, it is still a copyright violation.  Wikipedia can only accept properly licensed content (see WP:Donating copyrighted material).  For more information, please read WP:COPYPASTE.
 * The article came across has overly promotional rather than an encyclopedic article. This was inevitable, considering it was a copy-paste of a promotional website.
 * Wikipedia has strict guidelines on it has articles on. Remember, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a means of promotion, a business directory, etc..  A subject must be notable to have a Wikipedia article.  Companies must meet the guidelines at WP:CORP to meet the requirements for a Wikipedia article.  This company does not meet those guidelines.

In addition, you very clearly have a conflict of interest when it comes to this subject. Please see our policy at WP:Conflicts of interest. Generally speaking, you should not be editing or creating articles about subjects you would have a difficult time being neutral about (and it is extremely unlikely if not impossible that someone closely connected with a company would be willing to write anything that would go against the company's best interests - hence the conflict of interest). Singularity42 (talk) 21:39, 18 September 2013 (UTC)