User talk:Metadigm

Your contribution to the Trend Micro article

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Trend Micro 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. In addition it seems that you are from the Metadigm company and you even created article called Metadigm. No one is supposed to create substantial contributions about himself or his work on Wikipedia. Thank you for your understanding. --pabouk 16:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion

Apologies for writing content that could be construed as advertising, that was not my intention. My intention was just to write an informative page on Metadigm Ltd.

I have gone through and removed all the links to the Metadigm website, and where possible, replaced them with internal links through the Wikipedia site. The only link remaining is the one to Metadigm’s website at the bottom of the page.

This is a page which I would like to expand on in the future and have seen how my enthusiasm to be informative looked like advertising.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Metadigm (talk • contribs) 10:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Metadigm, during the last edit of the Metadigm article you did not follow the procedure described in the speedy deletion info box. Namely:

You deleted the infobox although the creator of the page should not do this.
You did not explain your intentions on the talk page of the Metadigm article (it is Talk:Metadigm). You wrote it here instead.

I am not involved in the speedy deletion nomination I just want to help you because hope that you did not have bad intentions. Please read the infobox again and follow the procedure if you want to increase possibility of preserving the article. I think that the links in the article were not the main problem (although there were a lot of them :-). --pabouk 13:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]