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Speedy deletion nomination of Asta financial services

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A tag has been placed on Asta financial services, 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 unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Hg andVenus 08:34, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Hg andVenus 08:37, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Astra Financial Services

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A tag has been placed on Astra Financial Services, 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 unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 09:31, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising. Hg andVenus 09:40, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not for advertising

The trouble with your article was that it was an advertisement, very obviously the story the company wants to tell the world, full of glowing adjectives: "broad range... comprehensive... wide product spectrum... dynamic... modern... dedicated... leading... reputable... extensive..." quite unsupported by any references. That sort of stuff might be OK, if a bit over-the-top, on the company's own website, but it is quite unacceptable in an encyclopedia article. Wikipedia is not a free platform for advertising or promotion of any kind.

I have deleted the version from your sandbox as well - advertisements are speedily deleted anywhere in Wikipedia, even in sandboxes and draft pages; any article would need to be rewritten from a clean sheet.

See User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard for more explanation and WP:Your first article for a basic guide. The tone of the article suggests that you work for the company: please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. JohnCD (talk) 10:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Advice

Yes, certainly you may try again, but you need a completely different approach. Read all the links from the message above carefully.

Conflict of interest: if you are connected with the company, read WP:Conflict of interest and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. In brief, you should not edit directly, but may make suggestions on article talk pages, or submit drafts. Note that you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4), and in some jurisdictions by laws against covert advertising, to disclose your interest in any edits where you have a COI. Even with no COI, as a new user it is probably better to submit a draft rather than edit directly.

Notability: Wikipedia is not a business listing directory, and does not expect or want to have articles about every company that exists. The inclusion criterion is called Wikipedia:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Facebook, Twitter, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the company thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also WP:Notability (organizations and companies).

That has the advantage of being a more objective test than "Do we think it's important?" and also of ensuring that there are independent sources for the article. It is quite a tough test, and many worthy organizations, especially new ones, cannot pass it. That is not at all to their discredit, but it means they are not suitable subjects for a global encyclopedia.

Advice: think hard about notability. See WP:ANS for what it means. If you cannot find independent sources to establish it, you will be wasting your time and effort. If you want to go ahead,

• Read WP:Your first article
• Read User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard
• Click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will start a draft page in your "user space" where you can work on the article, with a link to good advice and a "Submit" button which will send the article, when it is ready, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will look at it, and either accept it or give you feedback.
• When writing, make a strong effort to think of yourself, not as writing for the organization, but as writing for Wikipedia about the organization, from outside. You are not addressing a potential customer, but a general encyclopedia reader. Bear in mind the WP:Verifiability policy: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source", and when writing any glowing adjective, or indeed any claim, imagine a hostile critic saying "Who says? Can you prove that?" Don't talk about the organization's aims and hopes for the future, or its mission statement, but about what is has achieved. No opinions, only facts, neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources. Write in your own words, without copying from the website or from press releases. As far as possible, base your articles on what others, independently, say about the sompany, not what it says about itself.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:08, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Astra financial services

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A tag has been placed on Astra financial services requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator.  GILO   A&E⇑ 15:33, 8 May 2015 (UTC)