User talk:Wac2011

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Hello, Wac2011, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 19:25, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Wac2011. You have new messages at WP:REFUND.
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We Are Cloud

You will see that the main concern at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/We Are Cloud was notability. That is the criterion for inclusion; Wikipedia is not a business listing directory and does not expect to have an entry for every company, any more than for every person, band, or piece of software. Notability is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means substantial comment, more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the company thought it important enough to write substantial comment on? This requirement cannot be met by large numbers of references that mention the subject not at all, or only tangentially, or are not independent.

For more advice, read:

Also, avoid a promotional tone and peacock terms like "simple-to-use yet powerful" and "huge speed advantage". An encyclopedia article is quite a different thing from a sales brochure and should not sound like one; Wikipedia requires a WP:Neutral point of view. When about to write a glowing adjective, imagine a hostile critic looking over your shoulder saying "Who says so? Can you prove it?" Wikipedia's fundamental policy of WP:Verifiability requires that: "all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged be attributed to a reliable, published source."

For convenience I will repeat here the advice I gave at WP:REFUND: as this article was deleted after a deletion discussion, you should not restore it directly to the main space, but should first approach user Cirt (talk), the administrator who closed the deletion discussion, to get his/her agreement that the issues that caused deletion have been addressed. If you are then not satisfied, you should take it to WP:Deletion review.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:52, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]