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Thanks for adding the articles about the GBO event; I hope you will add additional material in the future.
You may want to look at the guideline on advertising type material on Wikipedia; the GBO articles as presently written sound somewhat like ads and may get deleted; with a little editing, you can probably fix that.
Likewise, articles have to meet Wikipedia's "notability" requirements; a forum drawing 25 senior citizens wouldn't qualify for inclusion in Wikipedia but the World Economic Forum obviously does. You'll want to somehow back up the importance of this conference.
In any event, welcome to Wikipedia!
--A. B. 02:05, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Commercial links
editPlease do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in mosquito. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Pollinator 18:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Comments:
- Go look at your article right away -- it's been flagged as violating Wikipedia copyright standards. You must "fix it or lose it" (to deletion from Wikipedia).
- A similar article you created, Global Business Opportunity Forum Singapore 2006, was deleted as being "non-notable. You need to address this immediately or else this new article will be deleted on similar grounds. See my earlier comments above.
- This article also could possibly be considered spam if you do not show grounds for its notability. Multiple instances of spamming gets editors banned from Wikipedia.
- See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GBO Trusted Enterprise Award for a discussion of one of your previous articles' deletion earlier this month.
- Do not keep re-creating deleted articles -- this will get you in trouble unless you address the reasons for the articles' previous deletion.
Sea Eagle (WIG craft)
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Another editor has added the {{prod}} template to the article Sea Eagle (WIG craft), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 01:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)