Kelly97

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Minicom Advanced Systems

Hello, Kelly97, and welcome to Wikipedia. An article you recently created, Minicom Advanced Systems, has been tagged for speedy deletion because its content is clearly written to promote a company, product, or service. This article may have been deleted by the time you see this message. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising service. Thank you. Seraphimblade 10:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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Helpme request

{{helpme}}

I am new to Wikipedia and the page that I created has been threatened with deletion and want to know how to avoid this from happening.

Some policy guidelines that may or may not be relevant (I don't know all the details of the situation):

• Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations)
• Wikipedia:Spam
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

In order to stop a page being deleted, you will have to show that the reason given for deletion is incorrect or not covered by policy. In order to stop the page being speedily deleted, you will need to show (in this case) that the page is not spam; on Talk:Minicom Advanced Systems, a user has suggested that one way might be to give sources establishing the notability of the company. Hope that helps; place {{helpme}} back up if you have any more questions. --ais523 12:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

You might also find Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? helpful. --ais523 12:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Would you be able to look at the page for me and tell me what aspects of it you think are problematic so I can rectify them.

Looking at the page (Minicom Advanced Systems, for the benefit of anyone else following this discussion), it focuses too much on the products that the company offers; an encyclopedia article would generally omit this entirely, merely mentioning what sort of products the company created in general terms (at the moment, all I can deduce from the article is that it's something to do with IT, because I don't understand many of the acronyms and detailed specifications). I'm not certain you'll be able to save the page, though; the Alexa ranking of the company's website is 258,619 (which isn't awful, but isn't good, either, and so will probably work against you if the deletion goes to the deletion-discussion stage), and the article doesn't yet convince me that the company meets the notablity criteria (if it does, it's a very good idea to edit the article to make it obvious). --ais523 13:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

I have made some changes and hope they are ok. I spent some time researching Wikipedia and looking at other companies' pages which are currently listed. Tried to model the page I wrote to theirs.

I have no idea whether the page will be deleted or not at the moment; I'm not an administrator, so it's not up to me to make the decision. WP:CSD#G11 (the rule about spam) deletions are often quite contentious and/or unclear, which is why I'm not sure; I'm not sure I can help you much more here. After a while, either an administrator will remove the deletion tags, or they'll delete the page. If the page is deleted, you could contact the administrator involved and discuss the matter with them; if you look at the location where a deleted page was, you'll see a link to the deletion log, where you can find out which administrator was responsible, and contact them on their Talk page. --ais523 13:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Copyright issues

As I can't find any indication that the text of the copied article is released under the GFDL, I've placed the article up for deletion as a copyright violation. If you have permission to release the copied text under the GFDL, you may wish to look at the copyright policy to see how to do so. Otherwise, if you'd like some assistance rewriting the article, I'd be happy to help you. I've saved the sources you found so far to User:Seraphimblade/sandbox so that they will not be lost-if you'd like to work on the article there, please feel free, but please do not copy in copyrighted content from a website or printed source unless you have permission to release the content under the GFDL and wish to do so. Seraphimblade 17:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Looking again, it appears that the copied content is only a paragraph and it's properly attributed. I don't think that'll be a problem after all. Seraphimblade 17:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Edits from your IP

Kelly, I noticed your request on Hertz's talk page and thought I'd respond. I believe it's possible for you to ask that your IP and not your username be blocked. I think you can do this at WP:ANI. Let me know if you need any further help with this. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 17:41, 9 January 2008 (UTC)