User talk:Weznerm

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Speedy deletion nomination of Verifyvalid


A tag has been placed on Verifyvalid, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It 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. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.
 * It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. JetBlast (talk) 19:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)


 * On Talk:Verifyvalid, you wrote:
 * This page should not be speedily deleted because... I am creating a wiki for my company and all of the people associated would be okay with what is written based on the exact text written abou them on our about us page.
 * Whether or not the people associated with Verfiyvalid is irrelevant. The article is tagged for deletion because:
 * It is a copyright violation, having been copied verbatim from the company's website. Wikipedia generally cannot accept copyrighted text within its pages, because all text at Wikipedia is assumed to be freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License (i.e. basically free for anyone to take and use however they like, as long as they attribute the original source).
 * It is a blatant advertisement. This is fine for your own website -- why else would you pay money to host a web page if not to promote your company?  But it is expressly not the purpose of Wikipedia.
 * It does nothing to assert the notability of the company. Wikipedia is a business directory; companies included in Wikipedia must meet the criteria for inclusion, which generally means demonstrating that the company has been the subject of multiple instances non-trivial coverage in independent sources.
 * Also, as you have claimed that Verifyvalid is your company, you have an obvious conflict of interest: your intention is to promote your company (or at least write an article that highlights the companies positives while downplaying its negatives) whereas Wikipedia's goal is a fair, balanced and neutral article about the company. People are discouraged from writing about their own companies for this reason.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:51, 3 June 2013 (UTC)