Ringo380
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Welcome to Wikipedia! edit
I saw your article that you started on VIP Air Ambulance. When I started, another user helped me a lot, including advice on an article.
Do you know of news articles about the company? This could be a first step to establish that the company is notable. The company doesn't have to be as big as Continental Airlines or American Airlines to qualify for a Wikipedia article.
Sometimes, in AFD, participants who offer opinions get it wrong. Since you may be an expert or well informed person about the company, you may know more. AFD's are suppose to be a discussion, not a vote so an article can survive a deletion debate (and be kept) if good points are explained (despite more people saying "delete").
Good luck! You might also consider keeping a copy of the article on your user talk page (this page) and working on it until it's ready for Wikipedia mainspace. One of the few rules is just that fair use images (photos copied under the fair use criteria) shouldn't be on user pages. Archtransit (talk) 20:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Conflicts of interest, ambulances and quick intro to Wikipedia edit
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. --A. B. (talk) 17:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Look, Ringo, lots of great editors start outed here on the wrong foot editing with a conflict of interest. C'mon, though -- you've got to admit it wasn't very fair to start an article on VIP Air Ambulance then Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International SOS nominate International SOS for deletion.
We'd love to have you stay and edit, just please, keep it neutral.
As for our rules, we've got over 200 and nobody other than Adrian Monk knows them all. Just keep your edits neutral and backed up by reliable sources (as narrowly defined by our one-page Reliable Sources Guideline). Stay away from conflicts of interest (see that one page guideline, too). Beyond that, 90% of what you need to know about editing here you either learned in kindergarten or can get out of this quick summary Wikipedia Simplified Ruleset.
And, again, welcome. --A. B. (talk) 17:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC)