User talk:Mpleasant

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in Domotics. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 21:06, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Smarthome article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! -SCEhard T 21:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pointers

Ok here's a couple pointers that might help you out with the Smarthome article. First off, I'm no expert on Wikipedia's copyright policy or copyrights in general. Having said that, here's what I believe to be the jist of it: Wikipedia cannot accept regularly copyrighted text, even if the copyright owner grants permission. This is due to the nature of Wikipedia -- the content of Wikipedia if freely available for anyone to do what they wish with. As such, even if the copyright owner grants Wikipedia the right to use said text, Wikipedia would be out of compliance with copyrights because it then turns around and offers the content freely.

However, if the copyright owner were to re-license the content under the GFDL or a GFDL-compatible license, the content could be used here. Check out the following guidelines for information on how this could be done:

An alternative to all this work would be to simply put the content in your own words, and then use the source as a citation (see WP:CITE).

Regarding articles that sound like advertising, I can understand if you're closely affiliated with a subject how it may be difficult to write neutrally. On this I can only offer the following suggestions:

Try to stick to the facts that you know about your company.
Look for words that aren't necessary to convey those facts and remove them. For instance, instead of saying "Acme is the world's most leading and most trusted manufacturer of widgets" you could say "Acme was founded in 1851. It produces 1 million widgets each year." Ok that's not the best example, but hopefully you get the jist.
If all else fails, add the {{POV-check}} tag to the article yourself. Then on the talk page write something like "I started this article to provide information on Acme Co, but as the president of the company I am having difficulty writing from a neutral point of view. If someone could help re-word the article I'd appreciate it. Thanks! ~~~~"

Lastly, regarding links, when an article is about an organization or company it is appropriate to place an external link on an article's page to that organization or company's official website. However, adding links to that same company on other (even related) articles can be seen as "linkspam". See WP:EL and WP:SPAM for further information on this.

Before I leave, I'm going to leave an official "welcome to Wikipedia" message, which has helpful links to other policies and guidelines that are useful for new Wikipedians. I hope they help --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 00:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Mpleasant, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 00:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad you found this helpful. I definitely think the article is improving, especially the opening paragraph, however the rest still sounds advert-ish. If you could model the rest of the article off the first paragraph, I think it would be in great shape.

One other suggestion too - if you can dig up any reliable sources (see WP:RS) that discuss Smarthome, they could make excellent citations (WP:CITE) for content in the article. See the above 2 links as well as WP:V (Wikipedia verification guidelines) for more info on this.

Of course, you can feel free to leave any work necessary to other editors, if you'd like - that's the beauty of Wikipedia --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 03:33, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you've done a good job finding citations for the Smarthome article. I'm going to take a closer look sometime this week, and if everything looks good I'll remove the tag. Thanks --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 12:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, it's not perfect, but it looks a heck of a lot better now. I've removed the tag. Cheers --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 21:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anytime! --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 21:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion made to INSTEON

I noticed that you reverted my changes to INSTEON, but you didn't explain this in the edit summary or on the talk page. Please reply here, or on my talk page. Codeczero 04:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Smarthome

A tag has been placed on Smarthome requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, 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, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (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 would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Toddst1 00:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Smarthome Lrg newtagline.jpg)

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Proposed deletion of Smarthome

The article Smarthome has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not demonstrate significant coverage by independent sources, fails WP:ORG

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. hydrox (talk) 11:09, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]