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Speedy deletion nomination of Freescore[edit]
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A tag has been placed on Freescore requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, 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 indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
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 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 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. —C.Fred (talk) 23:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
After removing company brochure style information, disclaimers and advice (including "howtos") applying to its business, tone issues, and non-encyclopedic content, all that was left was essentially that Freescore is a credit reference company. I have deleted it under WP:CSD#A7, but I also note it was deleted under this heading before, and you recreated it.
Please consider these issues carefully if you want to recreate the article a third time - they have now been identified independently on two deletions.
FT2 (Talk | email) 02:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
- You asked "how a company that has been searched for approx. 50k in April on Google alone and receives according to compete.com over 3,000,000 unique visitor a month is not important or significant enough to have warrant its own article".
- I can't say if it is or isn't, what I can say is the article did not make a case that it met Wikipedia's inclusion criteria. A quick 10 second guide follows, with links to read, and an indication what would be needed. This is (roughly) the three steps by which the Wikipedia community decides if a topic gets an article:
- The first thing is, we consider if there is a clearcut reason not to have an article. Example: Wikipedia isn't a yellow pages so we wouldn't keep a directory of electricians in each town. This doesn't affect Freescore because we do consider having articles on many websites.
The second question is, we consider the evidence that the topic meets our "notability" criteria. These are a bit like "how well known" it is, but slightly different. We measure it by looking to see who else has reported on the topic. If Freescore got an article in some reputable newspapers or good quality computer magazines; if it got awards or "top 50" ratings" in a reputable independent review of websites; that sort of thing. In other words, we're looking for reputable media sources (books, influential websites, magazines, newspapers) that spent time and effort to report about the topic to the world - without bribery, influence, or promotional pressure.
We discount all those which look like they are written by "the public" (blogs, websites without a specific reputation, wikis) or where product placement might be the case, and then see if we have evidence that some media source with a good reputation to protect, considered it worthwhile "taking editorial notice" of Freescore in a non-trivial way.
- Last, we consider whether relevant policies are being met. For example, we need to have assurance there is enough well sourced material in "reliable" credible sources (ie sources who we can trust to take care with what they say because they have a reputation to maintain) to actually write a balanced neutral article.
- Summing up, the main policies are - it mustn't be a type of content we don't cover, it has to be evidenced by suitable media citations that it is indeed a "notable topic" or more specifically in this case a notable website, and we need to be sure there is no sourcing or other problem in the way of writing a good quality neutral article if we tried.
- If Freescore meets those criteria, we will usually agree an article topic can be included in the encyclopedia. We have guidelines saying how it should be written (ie its style and content) but the articles "right to exist" would be clear.
- So what you would need to do is a bit of research on Google (and especially Google News archive search is very helpful) looking for evidence of significant media attention or significant ratings on Freescore. Ie, the actual weblinks (URLs) to news or award or ratings coverage in reputable media, to show Freescore did meet the notability criteria for websites.
- Quick summary of "style and content" - material that has a tone or focus that's not suitable for an encyclopedia will be rewritten or removed, links will be added, any over-detailed or promotional sounding wording simplified, and so on. About that simple. The rest, volunteers editors in the community will gradually address over time. FT2 (Talk | email) 03:33, 26 May 2010 (UTC)