Peter Cunningham 2302
A tag has been placed on Viaduc, 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 or service and which 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.
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The same also applies to Viaduc. Please note, that the articles created must conform to several other Wikipedia policies, including Wikipedia's spam policy, conflict of interest policy, Reliable Sources policy, Notability guidelines for businesses, and verifiability, or they will be deleted. Argyriou (talk) 18:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Viadeo edit
Peter, I've replied at my talk page. Argyriou (talk) 16:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I do not understand why you have deleted my article on Viadeo as 'advertising' - I have made only factual statements and no advertising statements such as 'best' 'biggest' etc.
Viadeo is one of the World's largest online business social networks with over one million users in Europe and 700k in China (with the partnership with Tianji).
Please explain to me how on earth you can call a factual statement - this is a network created on this date, with this many users, available in these languages and is used for these purposes can be 'advertising'.
Wikipedia has articles on all our competitors: Linked'in, Xing, Ecademy, Ryze - none of these articles has been deemed 'advertsing'. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Peter Cunningham 2302 (talk • contribs) 18:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC).
- It was deleted because it was written like an advertisment. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia doesn't need a blow-by-blow description of what makes the product cool, it needs to say why it matters. See Wikipedia's policy on advertisements for further details. If you think other articles also qualify as advertisments, you may nominate them for deletion. Thank you, Fang Aili talk 18:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)