Makanikai

Blue MauMau Deletion

You deleted the Blue MauMau article (on 12/26, I believe) I wrote for 1) insignificant group 2) blatant advertising. Neither of this is true. I prefer to remain anonymous rather than these comments being googled from here to eternity, so if you would reply to the e-mail of record for the article and give me a return e-mail address and phone number, it would be appreciated.

Thanks!

1/13/07Makanikai 19:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• Makanikai (talk · contribs)

This article was deleted under speedy delete criteria A7 (does not assert notability) and G11 (advertising). I have re-read the article and do not see any reason to change that assessment. Please read WP:WEB and WP:SPAM for more information on Wikipedia's policies. Thank you, Fang Aili ^talk 19:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand. The opening line of the article says that Blue MauMau is an on-line franchisee community. It also happens to be the largest on-line franchisee community with well over 200,000 visits per month. Franchising is a $1 trillion business and heretofore franchisees, the biggest part of it, have not had much of an opportunity to get the news they need to feel comfortable about making very important business decisions and to learn from each other. Blue MauMau provides that for them. How can this be considered not notable? Although not mentioned by name, it's one of those Web 2.0 websites that was the subject of the previous cover story in Time magazine (Person of the Year: You) and that are also being discussed on TV news magazines. Wikipedia and Google are also numbered among those Web 2.0 sites. As far as advertising, I don't see any ads at all on Blue MauMau. Certainly the group is not advertising itself and I am not an owner advertising for my benefit. May I suggest that you take a look at the website itself at www.bluemaumau.org to verify its importance.

Also, I asked that you contact me via my e-mail of record, which your info page said I could do, but you put the reply here on the public record which I said I wanted to avoid. What happened? Makanikai 20:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

First, I don't give out my email address or phone number to random people on the internet. Second, the article was written like an advertisement. If you wish to recreate the article, go ahead, but please do so in an encyclopedic manner, and add the notability assertions you mention above. Thank you, Fang Aili ^talk 00:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)