Feedmelit

Welcome!

Hello, Feedmelit, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Smashwords, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! JCutter (talk) 06:36, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Smashwords

A tag has been placed on Smashwords, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. JCutter (talk) 06:36, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

In regards to your questions on the article's talk page about what you are doing wrong, you may want to read our guidelines of inclusion (which I believe Smashwords fails), our guidelines on promotion, and what wikipedia is not. If you believe you can provide reliable sources for your article (thus meeting our guidelines of inclusion), and can write it in a non-promotional tone without any peacock terms (read that link to find out what they are), you can contact me here and I will assist you in the creation of the article. ~fl 03:31, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I have restored your article at User:Feedmelit/Smashwords in a process called userfication, what this means is you can edit the article on that page, and when myself or a fellow administrator thinks the article is ready, we can move it back to the "article space" name Smashwords, where everyone on the internet will be able to once again access it. If you wish to contact the admin you are referring to (I believe it was Ryan Delaney) you can contact them on their talk page. For tips on how to get your article up to the standards for a wikipedia article, you may want to read My First Article, a guide on how to write a good article, that has lots of good links to equally good guides and tutorials. If you need anymore help, or think the article is ready to be moved to the article space, feel free to contact me again on my talk page. ~fl 07:55, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Smashwords

Hi, Feedmelit! Let me start off by saying that contributing here is most certainly not a mistake—it's fun, and it's for a good cause. We all have to start somewhere, and it seems like you're on the right track to becoming a productive editor. That said, Foxy Loxy (talk · contribs) in the above thread had some excellent comments; most notably, it would be beneficial to read WP:MFA, assuming you haven't already. I hope this helps, and if you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask. Regards, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:48, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

You might want to contact Ryan Delaney (talk · contribs), as he was the editor who tagged it for proposed deletion ("PROD"), and I deleted it because the PROD had expired. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:28, 24 April 2009 (UTC)