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Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out more about how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:
- To find out more about creating articles, read the Introduction, the Tutorial, and the Guide to creating your first article.
- Do not write articles about yourself, your band, or your best friend - that's a conflict of interest.
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A tag has been placed on MiniManager, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which 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 {{hangon}} on the top of the article 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 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. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Reply to your question edit
The difficulty with what you would like to do is that Wikipedia is not a place for first publication; it is not the route by which something new becomes well known and talked and written about; that has to happen first. The threshold for something to stay in is described by the word Notability, and the primary test of notability is:
- A topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.
Advice from an experienced Wikipedian (from User:Uncle G/On notability):
- You can write about subjects that are close to you, but you must be very careful indeed. The primary requirement is this:
- When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit. If you don't have such sources, don't write.
- So, for example, if you are writing about yourself or about a family member, then use independent biographies as sources, not your own autobiography. If there aren't any independent biographies, don't write about yourself or your family member. Similarly, if you are writing about your company, then use independent articles written about your company as sources, not your company's autobiography and press releases. If there are no such sources, don't write about your company.
- This approach has two benefits:
- You'll find yourself automatically excluded from writing about non-notable subjects.
- The question of notability will not arise. It will be self evident from the article, which will cite the independent biographies as sources, that the subject fulfils the primary notability criterion.
The links in what I have written above will give you more information (and lead to more links... ). Another useful source of advice is the WP:Business' FAQ.