User talk:Mitch99

welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Mitch99, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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advertisement[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page MediaMan do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

Catalog and Organize personal library of Books/DVDs/CDs/Games[edit]

A tag has been placed on Catalog and Organize personal library of Books/DVDs/CDs/Games, 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 page 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. ∴ here…♠ 18:50, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Digital hoard[edit]

A tag has been placed on Digital hoard, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 16:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from articles you have created yourself, as you did with Digital hoard. Please use the {{hangon}} template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion. Thank you. --Finngall ^talk 17:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article was first tagged for deletion by Realkyhick, who noted that the article didn't seem to live up to the notability guideline for companies or their products, meaning that the page then qualified for speedy deletion under criterion A7 (Notability not asserted). After some of your subsequent edits removed the tag (something which the creator of an article shouldn't generally do, by the way, though we don't hold that against you), Finngall re-added the tag. Going through entries at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, I found the article and judged it to be instead at the time more eligible for speedy deletion under criterion G11 (Blatant advertising), because of the promotional language it contained. You listed "Digital Hoard's compelling features", for example, described how to use the program, and linked multiple times to its official site - a style which makes the article read like an advertisement. Advertisements are not allowed on Wikipedia, so I deleted it at that time. The questions and answers at Wikipedia:Business' FAQ might be enlightening, particularly the note about similar products or companies, even if your product is free. I hope that this explanation satisfies your desire to know why your article was deleted. Nihiltres^(t.l) 18:22, 25 July 2007 (UTC) (cross-posted)[reply]

You fail to mention how is this article different from others like bookpedia. Are you objecting to the number of outside links ? In any case you have not given me enough time to correct the mistakes. Youy come along and blow the whole thing. That is not right. Tell me what is wrong and I will fix it. But please don't delete it before I had a chance to respond.

I didn't say that there were links in the "compelling features" section. I said that the phrase "compelling features" sounded promotional, and meant that your linking not only to the official site but to a download page seemed promotional. It is different from the other articles in that the other articles have established the notability of their subjects: Delicious Library is the recipient of multiple Apple Design Awards, and as for Bookpedia, I tagged it with {{prod-nn}}, because although the article has lasted for as long as it has so far, it doesn't explicitly mention the notability of its subject. I hope that that addresses your concerns. By the way, please sign your posts using four tildes (~~~~). Nihiltres^(t.l) 18:54, 25 July 2007 (UTC) (cross-posted)[reply]