User talk:Oztapguy

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Hello, Oztapguy, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular

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A tag has been placed on Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular, 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 encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Melcous (talk) 13:24, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Oztapguy. You have new messages at Ita140188's talk page.
Message added 06:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Ita140188 (talk) 06:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the event, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references at all, and the article appears to be just your personal opinions
I can't see anything to show why this event is notable, such as attendance figures, sales or number of exhibitors
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: one of Australia's premier beer and food festivals... features hundreds of beers... predominantly known for the GABS 'Festival Beers'... the best brewers in Australia, New Zealand and from around the world... affectionately known... the event proved such a success... prestigious... one of the top 20 beer festivals in the world.—basically, it's fact-free spam for the event
the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks or references, and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

You have only edited this article, and your user name suggests that may have a conflict of interest. If that is the case, you must declare it. That is especially the case if you are an employee, agent or otherwise have a financial stake in promoting this topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Oztapguy. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Oztapguy|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.

If you want to try again, I can post the deleted text to a user subpage for you to work on, just let me know. You must respond to my COI query first, though Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:59, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]