User talk:RhomeTea

Hello, RhomeTea! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Regarding your addition to List of tea companies

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Experiementation and tagging

Wikipdia is not an experiment in social marketing. You may want to read this, Wikipedia:Spam#How_not_to_be_a_spammer

Do not remove speedy deletion tags. Your holdon message will be read and considered before your article is deleted. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Moved discussion

The Our Home Tea page has been designed to facilitate a discussion in the furtherance of social networks as a marketing tool. As we move from "interruption advertising" or "in your face" promotion to a model which places products "at easy access" for the consumer yet not "bothering" the consumer. If I am reading an online book how can I as a consumer come to a social agreement with a vendor that I will consider his offer if I am not being manipulated away from my primary task - reading the book. This article will be developed to enjoin that debate using an actual registered entity (Our Home Tea). I have just started this and hope to establish a conversation with other users on how to best present this social experiment. What better place than Wikipedia to develop an encyclopedic reservoir for the creation of a totally new paradigm? Please join me in this "adventure". Thanks Wikipedia for a great platform to develop this working, living think tank.RhomeTea (talk) 06:15, 27 August 2009 (UTC) hans[reply]

Sorry Hans but that's a no go. Firstly, your article is written like advertising material, so it isn't suitable for Wikipedia. Most importantly Wikipedia is a project to build a free encyclopedia, not a place for experiments and discussions about "the furtherance of social networks as a marketing tool". I've deleted the article and will delete this talk page soon and you're going to have to find another website for pursuing this social experiment and discussion. If you're interested in contributing to an encyclopedia, you're most welcome to join us, but that's all we're doing here and we don't provide resources for social experiments and discussions unrelated to the project of building an encyclopedia. Sarah 07:29, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]