Magicmonkeymeat

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page The Freaky Bean Coffee Company., seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Freaky bean logo.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Freaky bean logo.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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The Freaky Bean Coffee Company

Hi Magic Monkey Meat - the difference between the page that I deleted and Starbucks is that the page I deleted was written, basically, as advertising copy. That's what allowed me to speedily delete it. The Starbucks page, meanwhile, complies with Wikipedia's policy on neutral point of view, to the point of including a substantial section on criticism and controversy. I'm not saying that the Freaky Bean doesn't "deserve" an article - I have no idea whether it does or doesn't. I'm just saying that the article that I deleted was totally promotional in tone and "would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic" (quoting from [[WP:CSD|the criteria for speedy deletion). If you want to attempt that re-write, go ahead (I can't guarantee that it won't be deleted for other reasons). Please let me know if you have any other questions. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 17:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Freakybeanlogo.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:Freakybeanlogo.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

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AfD nomination of The Freaky Bean Coffee Company

An editor has nominated The Freaky Bean Coffee Company, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

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COI

Hi there. Just thought I'd drop you a line as you seem to be having trouble getting started here. I know it seems there are a thousand things to know, but this page is really the whole project in a nutshell, although you may also want to read up on conflict of interest editing. Don't be discouraged by the deletions and so forth, Wikipedia has millions of people working on it and there's always lots of lively debate. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you find your way around. Good Luck. Beeblbrox (talk) 20:20, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Policies...

Hi there - I noticed your comment on the AfD about not being aware of the politics here, which I took to mean a reference to our policies. Your articles need to have reliable sources (read up on this at WP:RS) and they need to be verifiable (read up at WP:V). They also need to be sufficiently notable - the general policy for this is at WP:N but there are links for guidelines on specific subjects such as those for companies.

If you have any questions about any of these or anything else, I'm happy to lend a paw, just click "talk" by my user name and leave me a message. Best wishes Fritzpoll (talk) 20:38, 29 March 2008 (UTC)