KrisRandal

October 2010

The page EPiServer has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which is unlikely to be suitable for an article (or at best would need a fundamentally rewrite). Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:45, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Advice

Hi Kris, I spotted you adding your name to the Cambridge wiki meetup at the weekend. If you like we can discuss why this article has been deleted there. I noticed from a google search that you may have some personal connection to EpiServer, in which case you have a conflict of interest. This doesn't mean you can't create an article but means that you do need to be extra careful to make sure our policies are respected in particular WP:NPOV and WP:V. Looking at google news, EpiServer appears to meet the general notability guideline so we should have an article on it, but it needs to be based 100% on reliable sources rather than your own personal knowledge. If you want to have another go at the article make a draft first at User:KrisRandal/sandbox and I'll be happy to review it for you and make sure it won't be deleted once it is moved into the mainspace. Smartse (talk) 12:12, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not an admin so can't see the article at the moment, I did have a look before it was deleted and didn't think it was really spammy enough to be deleted that quickly but maybe I was wrong. I've asked JamesBWatson if they can provide a copy of it, though so you can work on it. Re your old account - you should probably add a note to the userpage of this account just to make that clear to everyone. Now that you've registered an email address to this account if you forget you can get a new password. Smartse (talk) 13:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

You'll find the article is now at User:KrisRandal/sandbox. I can see the problem now, while I guess you wrote this to try and show why we should have an article on it, text like "has 3,000 customers worldwide in 2010, with over 9,000 sites running EPiServer" makes it sound promotional. Try and the articles found here: Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL to make sure everything in the article is referenced. Note though that we can't use press releases as references, as they are self published. It looks to me as though the article will probably be quite a bit shorted than at the moment and won't contain so much about the features of the program, but more about the company etc. Smartse (talk) 14:03, 19 October 2010 (UTC)