User talk:Gonzo Baggins

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Hello, Gonzo Baggins, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Egerton House Hotel, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Egerton House Hotel

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A tag has been placed on Egerton House Hotel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous 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 guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page 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 page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 13:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your question from Talk:Egerton House Hotel

You asked, "Apologies if it looks like an advert, this was not my intention. I noticed that the hotel did not have an entry in wikipedia, as do many hotels, so decided to create one. I thought that I had written it in a neutral point of view, but this is the first article ive created. If you could give me some advice on how to rewrite it i'd be happy to do so."

Though it may not look like it on first blush, there are strict policies on what subjects and content can and cannot be included in Wikipedia. In very general terms, before a person, place, thing, organization, or idea can be included in Wikipedia it must have

already been recognized
as important or significant
by objective, independent, and provable third party sources
with a established reputation for fact-checking
which are independent of both the subject of the article and of Wikipedia itself.

That's just a plain-English generalization of the actual rules to give you an idea of what's going on here, so don't rely on it but refer to the actual policies instead. (For a great analogy illustrating these concepts, see WP:SCRABBLE.) Without a working knowledge of Wikipedia policy it can be very frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted. I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at the Article Wizard and Your First Article and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one, they're full of solid gold information. Also, if you've not done so already, you need to read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, What Wikipedia is not, and Conflict of interest policies from beginning to end. The status of other articles is irrelevant, by the way, for the reasons stated at WP:OTHERSTUFF and WP:OSE. Good luck with your editing, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 15:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info Transporterman, I'll have a good look through those pages and try again.

londontown

Hi I have reversed some of your links to londontown as you appear to be posting simply to provide them a link in most cases. Perhaps if you weren't posting to the same url all the time (boutique hotels hot collection) it wouldn't come over that way. Thundernlightning (talk) 21:37, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Links to www.londontown.com

Hi, I don't think this resource counts as a reliable source for use in articles, and may be a form of external link spamming. I've started a discussion "Possibly spam links to londontown.com" and of course you are very welcome to join in. Thanks - Pointillist (talk) 10:13, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]