User talk:Solarbox

Microgrid Solar

You wrote on the talk page of the now-deleted article:

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because this is a well established company and the leader in Solar in the Midwest. The article although thin at this exact moment is being written up as we type and has only been live for a few hours.

Some points to consider:

• Who is "we"? That isn't a rhetorical question; please answer it.
• You have not read, or you have not understood, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You clearly have one.
• You should also read WP:CORP, which spells out the criteria a company must meet before it merits an article on Wikipedia. The company's failure to meet WP:CORP is one reason it has been deleted now twice.
  • Being a well established company doesn't make it notable.
  • Being a leader in a region doesn't necessarily make it notable; it depends on reliable-source coverage.
  • The fact the the article survived for a few hours doesn't mean the article should be kept. Articles can be deleted even if they've been on Wikipedia for years.
• Because you have a conflict of interest, it would be best if you went through the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process rather than try to create it yourself in main space. I recommend you work on the article in your sandbox so you can work on it at your leisure without worrying about deletion.

I have protected the main-space article for now. When you think your article is ready I'm happy to review it before moving it to main article space. ~Amatulić (talk) 22:25, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer on my talk page. You can talk to me here too; your talk page is on my watch list.

Your gave the appearance of a conflict of interest by repeatedly re-creating an article about a company, and using the word "we" in your comment, which is, on Wikipedia at least, a classic and fairly reliable sign that we have a company representative trying to create an article. If that is not the case with you, then I apologize for reacting to the rather clear appearance you gave.

Keep in mind that Wikipedia accounts must be accessed by only one person, you as an individual, and no one else. If your wife has access to this account, it may be blocked. She needs to get her own account. There are legal reasons for this having to do with copyright and attribution.

For an article to avoid speedy deletion, it must assert the notability of the topic to explain why the company is significant enough to have its own Wikipedia article. The way you wrote it, it's just another company out of many. That's to avoid speedy deletion. To avoid a deletion proposal or WP:AFD deletion, it needs to cite reliable independent sources.

Again, I suggest fleshing out the article in your sandbox first, providing enough sources to establish notability as required by WP:CORP. When you're satisfied it's ready, I'm happy to review it for launching in main article space. If you like, I can also restore the deleted article to your user space for you to work on. Let me know. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:56, 6 May 2013 (UTC)