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I have added some new references to support the article AWMN but I am not so sure what else is needed! Could you give me some guidelines here?

--Socrates.awmn (talk) 22:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

There are two issues to be addressed. The first issues is the lack of references. Material in the article must be verifiable through reliable sources. Most of the references provided appear to be self-published which is okay for some material but not all. The second issue that needs to be addressed is notability. The best way to establish this is to show that AWMN has been written about by third party reliable sources. For example, news papers have written articles about it. I hope these explanations help. Regards, -- Whpq (talk) 11:03, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

And this discussion is best served by continuing it at Talk:Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network so that other editors can easily find it and provide their input. -- Whpq (talk) 11:06, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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Request reason:

OK I understand that this is the policy of Wikipedia. Although I cannot change who I am. As my username shows (I've never hidden it) I am an active member of AWMN, an insider. If this by itself doesn't allow me to write anything about AWMN -- a subject that I know very well -- well maybe it is best to block my account. I can assure you although that everything I wrote was simple facts based on wikipedia rules without any trace of marketing exaggerations. Please notify me for any if exists. To extend my thesis I am just wandering if only outsiders are permitted to wirite about a subject in Wikipedia. For example greeks are permited to write about Greece? I think you can understand my point.--Socrates.awmn (talk) 22:33, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Every day, we block hundreds of people who are trying to use Wikipedia to advertise their businesses. If we didn't, Wikipedia would quickly stop being an encyclopedia and become nothing but the internet's largest commercial. And each of those people tries to argue about the philosophy. What is an advertisement, really? Doesn't everyone have some kind of conflict of interest? Wouldn't the encyclopedia cease to exist if no one wrote about things that they care about? You let Greeks edit Greece, don't you? And time after time, I look at those users' actual contributions, and they turn out to be, not well-intentioned, neutral, encyclopedic information, but the simplest, most obvious, most biased advertisements possible- like this edit, in which you blank the encyclopedia article that was there and replace it with a commercial singing the praises of your organization. Can you understand how, by the time evening sets in and I've read this conversation for the twentieth or thirtieth time, I just get very, very tired of all of the people who think that they'll gain business by pushing their companies on Wikipedia? If you ever become interested in actually writing an encyclopedia, a free collection of neutral information accessible to all the world- it's a beautiful, noble vision, isn't it?- and not just in advertising yourself - a vision that's so much uglier and less noble- then feel free to ask again. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 03:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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