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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Vactruth.com

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Draft:Vactruth.com, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. The fact is that that draft is just an attempt to attack the company, and therefore the "deletion as an attack page" tag is 100% appropriate. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:15, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Vactruth.com

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Speedy deletion nomination of Vactruth.com

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Vactruth

I've deleted the page and I figured that I'd explain why in a little more depth.

Ultimately the main reason is that the page came across like a WP:SOAPBOX effort intended to show how the site is bad. You commented that you were writing what was already out there, but the issue here is in the way you phrased things. For example, you wrote that the site "has a pattern of providing support for an accused child abusers as documented by Science blogs". I read over the source and the author doesn't actually state that the site supports accused child abusers. The thing about claims like that is that the source has to explicitly state this claim and even then, this is the type of claim that needs to be made in multiple sources because it poses such a huge potential legal issue for Wikipedia. I also have to note that Wikipedia is not a place to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. In any case, the biggest difference between NaturalNews and this article was how everything was phrased. When it comes down to criticism things have to be phrased extremely carefully - most of the time it has to be sourced to direct quotes from people/places that would be considered a reliable source per Wikipedia and even then it has to be extremely carefully done. You didn't really do this with your entry per sentences like the one above and phrases like "a deeper look".

I also didn't really see where this site would pass Wikipedia's notability guidelines. The sources on the article were fairly weak overall for the most part. PinkNews could probably be used as a RS since they do have an editorial board and The Daily Beast could probably be used as well (although TDB's usability is very frequently contested on here), but places like The Spudd would be considered a self-published source since it undergoes little to no editorial oversight that Wikipedia can verify. I performed a search and ultimately couldn't find a huge amount of coverage out there to show where this site really merits an article. You can chalk that up to some sort of victory in a way, since it looks like the site is regularly ignored by most groups and is, at best, considered to be part of the tin foil hat brigade by most of the places reporting on them.

I'm also somewhat concerned by posts you left on this talk page where you asked if there was some sort of bias on Wikipedia as far as this site is concerned. The answer to that is pretty much no - there isn't. It's pretty much just that the page came across as some sort of expose on the website and while you may have not intended it to come across as an attack page, that's how it comes across. That poses a huge legal concern for Wikipedia if the site were to decide that the entry was libelous and choose to sue Wikipedia since it was hosting the content. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:01, 7 July 2015 (UTC)