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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Ampricot-logo.png edit
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Speedy deletion nomination of Ampricot edit
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A tag has been placed on Ampricot, 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 Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
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Wikipedia is not for product announcements edit
If you really think you have removed unambiguous advertising/promotion portions when your new version includes "full-fledged and lightweight... easy to install and use... excellent out-of-the-box solution... simply works like a charm... Exciting Features & Cutting Edge Technologies.. ", then you are either too close to your subject or you have been too long in the PR/advertising trade. Wikipedia is not here to help promote your new system, and anything like that is deleted at sight.
Please read the guideline on WP:Conflict of interest. JohnCD (talk) 11:27, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Omranic,
It seems to me that an article you worked on, Ampricot, may be copied from http://www.ampricot.com/. It's entirely possible that I made a mistake, but I wanted to let you know because Wikipedia is strict about copying from other sites.
It's important that you edit the article and rewrite it in your own words, unless you're absolutely certain nothing in it is copied. If you're not sure how to fix the problem or have any questions, there are people at the help desk who are happy to assist you.
Thank you for helping build a free encyclopedia! MadmanBot (talk) 12:27, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Advice edit
Wikipedia is so keen to encourage everyone to come and edit that it does not do as much as (in my opinion) it should to explain at sign-on time what it is for and what it is not for. I would like to see something on the lines of: "This is a project to build an encyclopedia. If you would like to help with that, you are very welcome, click here to create an account; but if you have come here to write about yourself, your band, your company, or anything you are closely associated with, this is probably not the site for you." I have yet to persuade people to do that, but I think it would save a lot of disappointment and wasted effort.
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is selective about subjects for articles: the criterion used is called WP:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about?
As your product is newly released, it is unlikely that will yet have attracted the sort of independent comment necessary; that is not to its discredit, but it means it is too early for an encyclopedia article. Encyclopedias are not in the new-product announcement business.
For other issues, see User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard, which I wrote because I have this conversation so often.
Before proceeding, think hard about notability, because if you cannot demonstrate it your article will not be accepted. People often waste a great deal of time and energy trying to make something appear notable which is not. See WP:42 for what it means.
If you want to proceed, go to Help:Userspace draft and fill in the name. That will create a draft page where you can work on the article, with a "Submit" button to send it, when it is finished, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will check it and either accept it or give you feedback. Before writing, read WP:Your first article. When writing, remember that you are not writing for your company aiming at potential customers, you are writing for Wikipedia aiming at the general encyclopedia reader. Don't give long lists of features that make it look like a product catalogue entry - you can link to your website for anyone who wants the detail. Read WP:PEACOCK. The tone should not tell the reader whether you personally think the product is good or bad.