The article Dead Beats has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 18:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion of Dead Beats

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A tag has been placed on Dead Beats requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

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Username sounds like an organization

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: It sounds like a role account. . After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 22:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thankyou for the prompt reply todd, i can assure you my username is not a role account, it represents me alone, on my mac, at home and not Dead Beats itself in any way, although i am part of the team. I intend to continue using this account for any other edits or new pages i may create.

I do not intend to use Wikipedia as an advertising ploy to promote Dead Beats, as we are non-profit, we only give things away for free - i appreciate my original page format was heavily promoting dead beats and, being honest, i copied it directly from an article i wrote for leeds met student wiki (http://thestudentwiki.org/dead_beats) which is operated by our university and we had been told we could promote the site on there, i didnt stop to think when i put it on wikipedia. i have removed all of what wikipedia stated was 'blatant advertising' from the page.

I'd also like to say why i feel Dead Beats deserves a mention on wikipedia. wikipedia is the worlds most highly respected resource for the documentation of all things informative and i realise that doesnt mean that it is a business directory, but dead beats as an organisation working with the local community, in particular the massive student community, is information worth documenting. if wikipedia does not feel we are as 'significant' as any of the other UK independant record labels you have listed on here, then by all means 'speedily delete' the page. Upon what is significance judged though? Im sure i could find enough people in the Leeds area alone who would endorse us.

thanks again