User talk:Willjwoo

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Cross Country Home Services

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Cross Country Home Services, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Cross Country Home Services

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Draft:Cross Country Home Services, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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. — fortunavelut luna 14:56, 14 September 2017 (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 company, press releases, 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. Most of your text is unreferenced, the only referenced facts apart from the awards is "was founded in 1978" from your own website. Even that I can't personally verify because your site appears to be set up to block access from the UK
It's not clear to me how you meet the notability criteria. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, turnover or profits, you don't even appear to have a headquarters. 800,000 customers might make it notable, but there is no independent third-party source to verify that figure, which otherwise appears to have been plucked out of the air. The awards don't appear to have Wikipedia articles, so probably not notable either. Local or trade awards signify little.
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Your draft was classic company spam — "This is what we sell. These are our awards", otherwise fact-free, and no criticism. Listing every product you service or install looks spammy too
the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks 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. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial. Text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. 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. Because I'm blocked from your website, I can't check directly whether you have copied from your own pages, but obviously I could ask a US-based admin to have a look if it became an issue.
I did forget to declare my conflict—Thank you for declaring your conflict of interest. See guidance for editors with conflicts of interest. You are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to formally disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Willjwoo. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Willjwoo|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared.

Your second version was an improvement on the first, but you need to appreciate that company articles are always going to invite close scrutiny. To have a chance of survival, you need proper independent references (hopefully ones that can be read outside the US!) and more real facts. Don't have long lists of what you sell, and be aware that an "Awards" section is almost equivalent to "Here be spam". If you really must mention the awards, put them in another section (you have too many short sections anyway).

I hope this helps Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:48, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]