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Proposed deletion of Explore kent

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Explore kent, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

non-notable brand; article written as a guide rather than a neutral encyclopedic page

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

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• I agree with Ironholds. A brief mention in the KCC article is all that this subject needs. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 16:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleted promotional links

I see you spent 4 hours this morning trying to promote KCC. This raises many interesting issues.

• Your web site is a nice piece of PR conforming with KCC standards, but like a lot of material produced by KCC omits any useful information. For someone wanting to take a day out, there is not enough detail- it promotes the concept but fails to help the activity. Your budget I presume is justified as it is part of a Health promotion initiative but fails actually to give the information needed to get one obese soul onto the footpath network.
• For a comparison see the detail achieved in Stour Valley Walk. Wikipedia is published under a Creative Commons licence- ie you are free to transclude text into you website if the text is attributed. It would be helpful if you and KCC reciprocated, and allowed other free use of your text.
• Particularly KCC has copyright ownership of many images that could be donated to Wikipedia commons in the same way the German Government and the US government has. I am particularly interested in the free right to use various logos such as the logo on the Stour Valley Walk sign.
• Please don't do this quietly- Britains largest authority give wikipedia the right to use all its images is a story of worldwide importance- a PR coup.
• If you have time on you hands- all the Kent walk pages can do with improving.
• Look out for some of the Kent images I have placed on Commons- some are already being used by government departments in their brochures- they may be useful to your boss, and they are of course CC-BY and royalty free.

In the meantime the site doesn't give enough page specific information to warrant the links. --ClemRutter (talk) 19:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

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AfD nomination of Explore Kent

I have nominated Explore Kent, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Explore Kent. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 19:23, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

April 2009

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