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Spam in R.L. Polk & Co.

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on R.L. Polk & Co., by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because R.L. Polk & Co. is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.

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FYI Conflict of interest guideline

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I declined to delete it, and left some detailed advice on the article talk page. Learn our style, add citations to 3rd party sources, and it should be OK DGG (talk) 00:02, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:PolkLogo2.gif)

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This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 05:12, 7 January 2009 (UTC)