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Deleted page "Episurveyor"

A page you created, or image you uploaded, Episurveyor, has been deleted in accordance with our deletion policy. In particular, it meets the one or more criteria for speedy deletion; the relevant criterion is:

Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic.

Wikipedia has certain standards for inclusion that all articles must meet. Certain types of article must establish the notability of their subject by asserting its importance or significance. Additionally, since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, content inappropriate for an encyclopedia, or content that would be more suited to somewhere else (such as a directory or social networking website) is not acceptable. See What Wikipedia is not for the relevant policy.

You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable notability guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content; it will be deleted again and may be protected from re-creation. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article. If you have any questions, please contact an administrator for assistance. Thank you – Gurch 12:27, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Your article

Hi again. The main problem with your article was not the issue of whether the project was sufficiently notable or important to merit an article (although this is obviously a consideration), but that it did not really read like an encyclopediaic article. The article's deletion does not prevent you from re-writing your contribution and re-creating it; indeed, you are encouraged to do so. There are three main points you should consider to ensure your article meets our guidelines:

• Provide sources and reference your claims. See our policies on verifiablility and citing sources. The best sources are reliable sources, and preferably independent ones. Keep the article free of original research. If the project has been mentioned in the media, use this as a source; if it's mentioned in a mainstream online publication, even better – provide a link along with the reference.

• Assert the importance or signifiance of the subject. Explain how the project is notable, so that it meets our notability guidelines.

• Write an encyclopediaic article. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. There are many things which Wikipedia is not, but is often misuses as – a directory, for example, or a social networking site. Try to ensure the tone of your article reflects this, and that the article doesn't read like an advertisement or product description. In particular, make sure your article is written from a neutral point of view.

You may also wish to consult our full list of content and style policies.

I hope this information is useful to you – Gurch 19:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Advertising

Hi again; I understand your confusion here, apologies for not explaining.

Wikipedia gets several thousand new articles per day, and a good few hundred of these are attempts to promote organizations, products or services – often written by the marketing department of the organization in question. Many of them are easy to spot as they are copied-and-pasted directly from the organization's own website, or a product description page. Others are not so obvious, but are written in an unencyclopediaic way. For example, they don't link to other articles, they read like a product description, they fail to provide any sources (except sometimes a link to the organization's website), or they provide a perspective that is excessively biased towards the organization, product or service. Until a couple of months ago, these articles would not always be deleted; sometimes they would be removed after a discussion, or trimmed down to a minimal "stub" article with just a couple of sentences, or cleaned up to remove the above problems and conform to the guidelines I mentioned before.

Unfortunately, the increasing popularity of Wikipedia has resulted in an exponential increase in the number of "promotional" articles being written – at one point, a business was even set up to write articles for companies on-demand (the account they used was prompty blocked from editing). This somehow needs to be kept under control by a relatively small group of volunteers. We have found that the only way to deal with this influx of spam and other advertising is to delete unencyclopediaic articles concerning organizations, products and services that look as though they may have been written solely to promote that organization, product or service.

Wikipedia has recently shifted its focus from creating new articles to improving the quality of existing ones, in an attempt to prevent the project becoming unmaintainable due to its sheer size. The target now is not an increase in the number of articles, but an increase in the number of featured articles, and an increase in the average quality of existing articles. This inevitably means that the standards expected of new articles have risen.

However, if you bear in mind the points in my previous reply, and write an article that is reasonably in keeping with the guidelines, then it shouldn't be deleted (at least not without a full discussion beforehand). It doesn't have to be perfect – far from it; the whole point of Wikipedia is that anyone can improve articles. But now that quality, rather than quantity, is the project's main focus, sources, citations, and neutrality are crucial. Hope this helps – Gurch 20:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Removal of EpiSurveyor from the list of open-source public health software

Regarding your question on my talk page, Wikipedia policy is that list article of this type need to include entries which point to other Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists#Common_selection_criteria, specifically the statement "Every entry meets the notability criteria for its own non-redirect article in the English Wikipedia." If you believe your product meets the Wikipedia Notability Criteria, see Wikipedia:Notability for the "general notability guide", then you may request that an article be created at Wikipedia:Requested articles. Be aware that, while any user may create an article under normal circumstances, there is one exception and that is that we ask that users who have a conflict of interest with the article to avoid working with it. That is because this is a product from a company you represent, you have an interest (promoting the product) which may be in conflict with Wikipedia's own interest (having a neutral point of view). You can, however at Wikipedia:Requested articles put in a request to create an article, and provide us with reliable sources with which we can verify that your company meets the general notability guideline. If you have any further questions, please click the "blue links" I have provided in this explanation, they will take you to Wikipedia's various policy and guideline pages which explain these concepts in more detail. You can also contact me at my talk page, as you already have, for any further questions you may have. I am always glad to help! --Jayron32 21:45, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

You told me I didn't answer your question. I did. Right above this line, in the response I left dated 11 December 2010. Please read that, and if you have any further questions, let me know and I will answer them for you. --Jayron32 20:40, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Conflict of interest policy

Hello, Jselanikio. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 17:57, 27 June 2013 (UTC)