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Your recent addition to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/HarvestMark has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 09:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Re:Why was HarvestMark deleted?

Hi Kipknight. Although it may have not been your intent, your article, "HarvestMark", read like an advertisement. Here on Wikipedia, we have a policy in which advertising/spam is speedy deleted per deletion criterion G11. Please note that articles for deletion are judged on their own merit, not in comparison to other articles (See WP:OTHERSTUFF). You are certainly welcome to resubmit the article, but please revise the text so that it complies with the policies and guidelines noted at WP:ADS and WP:MOS; otherwise, you run the risk of having the article deleted again. FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

If you like, I can provide you with a copy of the deleted text so you can clean it up before resubmitting. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 04:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Re:Harvestmark article

Actually, I think it'll be easier if I post it right here. Below is a copy of the deleted text: {{Infobox company |company_name = HarvestMark |company_type = Privately held |foundation = 2005 |location_city = [[Redwood City]], [[California]] |location_country = U.S. |key_people = '''[[J. Scott Carr]]''' <small>President and CEO</small><br />'''Elliott Grant''' <small>Chief Marketing Officer and Founder</small><br />'''Sean Calhoon''' <small>Vice president of Product Development</small><br />'''William Hoover''' <small>Vice President of Finance and Operations</small><br />'''Randall Freeman''' <small>Vice President of Sales</small> |industry = Produce traceability technology |parent = [http://www.yottamark.com YottaMark, Inc.] |homepage = [http://www.harvestmark.com HarvestMark.com] }} '''HarvestMark''' is a fresh [[Produce_traceability|food traceability]] service of [[YottaMark, Inc.|Yottamark]], a privately held [[Redwood City]], Calif., company specializing in product traceability and authentication systems.<ref>Industries Served by YottaMark, http://www.yottamark.com/industries/</ref> HarvestMark was created in 2006 in response to industry demand for a traceability system for fresh fruits and vegetables. Tracking and packing technology allows a way for growers, shippers and packers to give individual items and cases of produce a unique identity that links to harvest, packing and supply chain information. HarvestMark tracking codes can help improve response to food recalls and deliver product information on the Internet<ref>El Rosal Signs on to Deploy Harvest Mark for PTI, http://www.harvestmark.com/news/pressrelease/ElRosal_FINAL_2009-10-02.aspx</ref>. Since its creation, the label has been attached to almost a billion food items. == Produce Traceability == {{db-g11}} Produce traceability makes it possible to track fresh fruit and vegetable products from their point of origin to the retail location where they are purchased by consumers. Information included in traceable produce includes: * What the product is * Where it came from * Whether it is subject to recall or other security issues * When and where it was packed or manufactured * In some cases the intended shipping destination Produce traceability can allow health agencies to quickly and accurately identify the source of contaminated fruit or vegetables suspected to be the cause of an outbreak of food borne illness and remove them from the marketplace. Beginning in 2008, an industry-led effort to enhance traceability throughout the entire produce supply chain was launched as the Produce Traceability Initiative<ref>Produce Traceability Initiative, http://www.unitedfresh.org/newsviews/produce_traceability_initiative</ref>. The PTI Action Plan outlines<ref>PTI Action Plan Implementation Tool Kit, http://www.producetraceability.org/</ref> a course of action to achieve supply chain-wide adoption of electronic traceability of each case of produce by the year 2012. Many packers are now tracing fresh produce such as watermelons, grapes, tree fruits, strawberries, bell peppers, tomatoes and cauliflower using HarvestMark technology<ref>Growers Using Traceability, Western Fruit Grower magazine, July 2009 http://www.yottamark.com/about/press_releases/WesternFruitGrower_7-1-09.pdf</ref>. A July 2009 statement from the Obama Administration's Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) includes a recommendation for a national trace-back and response system and underscores the role of traceability in shortening the time between outbreak detection, resolution and recovery<ref>Obama Administration Delivers on Commitment to Upgrade U.S. Food Safety System, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Obama-Administration-Delivers-On-Commitment-to-Upgrade-US-Foof-Safety-System</ref>. ==See also== * [[Track and trace]] * [[Produce traceability]] ==Notes== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Food companies of the United States]]

If you're looking for review, I'd suggest trying out WP:AFC, WP:WIZ, or WP:YFA as possible venues. There are a lot of editors there who would be more than willing to help you out. Regards, FASTILY ^(TALK) 03:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Avalanche Technology

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Avalanche Technology, 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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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Kipknight. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Avalanche Technology, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:28, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Avalanche Technology (November 20)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by K.e.coffman was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia.

K.e.coffman (talk) 00:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Kipknight! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! K.e.coffman (talk) 00:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)