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Speedy deletion nomination of Maxdalury

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A tag has been placed on Maxdalury, 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.

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Problems with upload of File:Maxdalury -1 via RotoGrinders January 15, 2016.png

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File permission problem with File:Maxdalury RotoQL 2.png

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Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~~~~. I copy edited maxdalury. Let me know if you aren't clear about any of my changes.

I deleted your article because

• Although it had independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts, I'm not convinced it meets notability guidelines. I can't see any claim of notability in terms of sales/downloads. May be WP:Too soon and better as a redirect to maxdalury?
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. I get know sense of what the software does, or even if it is free or paid-for, but we have examples of contentious claims presented as fact that include: world-class... can now maximize their time and winnings by acquiring the ability to utilize... widely adopted by the world's top players.

Your edits suggest that you have a conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this article and maxdalury. If you have a financial stake in this topic, it is mandatory to declare any paid advocacy. This is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated directly or indirectly 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:Ambidandy. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ambidandy|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. I can release the deleted text to a user subpage if you think it is currently viable as a stand-alone article, but you must answer my COI query first Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of RotoQL for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article RotoQL is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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I am still in the process of editing the article. It was deleted mid-edit once before because of potential COI, which, to my knowledge, have been resolved. Please provide any suggestions on how to improve the article.

Thank you! Ambidandy (talk) 01:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:RotoQL Black.jpg

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