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Wildthing61476 removed the speedy delete tag because I've found a few sources for potential notability. They mention a different aim for the company (internet customer service relations systems) than the article, but my guess is because I've been focusing on Public Mind instead of publicmind. I've replied on the talk page with a request for any sources of info you have and a question about website.

Btw, I like your intro at the new user log. I've enjoyed the few spoken articles I've listened to, and would probably enjoy text-to-speech with the latest voices and natural rhythm. (Not enough money to splurge.) I love reading WP and listening to audiodramas and audiobooks. Most are fiction, but I like The Ancestor's Tale because Lalla Ward reads half of it, and it's interesting. TransUtopian 19:34, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merope speedy deleted it, citing "csd a7 -web" (On the now deleted page, click Deletion log. CSD A7 is Article criteria #7, which means Merope believed the article didn't assert the importance of its subject. (Ignore this if you know this already.)

I don't know whether Merope or someone else tagged it again. Either s/he didn't look at the history or the talk page, where Wildthing61476 tagged and then untagged it due to us finding possible notability sources, or Merope looked at them but disagreed that they asserted notability.

The thing is, the sources ([1] [2] [3]) asserted borderline notability for the CRM platform the company started with, not for the free service which "aggregates consumer voices to influence corporate decision making" and which has Skype and Kontiki as clients. The latter fact might be enough to assert notability for the latter, though there are verifiability concerns as I so far haven't been able to find reliable sources for that. Quite a few blogs and forum posts, but those aren't considered reliable in Wikipedia.

While the sources assert some notability, admins have discretion to apply policy as they see fit. Speedy deletion, if an admin agrees an article meets the criteria, generally goes very fast. You can ask Merope directly, request undelete at Deletion Review, or bring it up/ask others for help with finding sources at Village Pump - Assistance or Help Desk. TransUtopian 16:11, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article that I deleted had no sources and made no assertion of notability. It's possible that, in doing some outside research, Wildthing61476 found that the subject was notable; but since no such assertion or evidence was within the article, I deleted it per WP:CSD#A7. You are free to recreate the article with sources that back up a claim of notability. -- Merope ^Talk 17:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. On that day, there was a backlog of over 200 articles that needed investigation or deletion, and I must not have been paying as close attention as I should have been. I will be more careful in the future. -- Merope ^Talk 01:06, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So there's the explanation. Stuff happens. :) Sometimes when I'm reverting a bunch of vandalism I miss something which isn't vandalism and I or someone else has to correct my mistake.

Merope might be willing to restore the article to your userspace to fix up, if it's not something which can be easily recreated. But I haven't yet found evidence that Publicmind is notable outside of blogs for the internet meme it became. For the CRM solution it was going to be, that has borderline notability, but that's not the focus of the intended article.

If you can find non-blog significant mentions of Publicmind as harnessing the internet to gather grassroots support, I'll gladly support. It's a great idea and I'm disappointed that it folded before I heard of it. TransUtopian 11:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BTW welcome to Wikiproject medicine. As part of this Translation project as seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project I will be working further to improve the article on cancer and would love you help.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:09, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wondering if you would be interested in helping improve medical content in English? Translators Without Borders will be taking care of much of the translation efforts. Will need people however to liaison with the editing community in other languages and help reintegrate content translated by TwB.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:01, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Have removed the Lancet paper as it does not mention cancer but "seasonal allergies" and other stuff. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:49, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would like to see a page on ScriptDB ^[1] . I would like to see a best-attempt at an objective Wikipedia page on it. --Zaurus (talk) 14:26, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on WorkJam (Company), requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It 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. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, 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. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for 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 "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. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:48, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself, as you did with WorkJam (Company). 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 talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:04, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As I stated on Your talk page I have not removed the tag myself. Please don't accuse me of something I didn't do. Also please don't spam my talk page with redundant information.

I have created a draft of my page. here --Zaurus (talk) 23:25, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on WorkJam (Company), requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It 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. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, 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. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for 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 "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. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:05, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have contested the speedy deletion on the talk page. Zaurus (talk) 02:31, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I removed your comment from Wikipedia talk:Article wizard because the talk page is meant for discussions about the page itself. It's not meant for comments about the process of writing an article. WP:RS addresses your sourcing issue and RS is linked from the article wizard. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:25, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources mentions "news releases" but not Newswire websites per say. If it doesn't explicitly warn people that these websites are not reliable, then people will continue to waste time citing them without knowing.

The Wikipedia_talk:Article_wizard isn't helping people avoid this pit trap for now. I think my comment relates directly to the quality or helpfulness of this article, so please restore my comment to allow people to discuss how to improve the wizard. --Zaurus (talk) 00:29, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Please also read WP:CIR. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:35, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Articles generally stay how they were when disputes occur. So until you have gotten consensus leave it be. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:51, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Doc James: Your actions are doing much less to reach consensus. Please read the talk page and respond with meaningful responses instead of boiler-plate off-topic remarks and inapplicable Wikipedia policies. --Zaurus (talk) 22:01, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You can try a RfC. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:03, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:WorkJam (Canadian company ). Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

Mostly press releases and routine announcements. Please read WP:NCORP.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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S0091 (talk) 21:51, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 05:26, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Zaurus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "WorkJam".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by HitroMilanese was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Does not appear to meet WP:NCOMPANY.

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Hello! I saw there was an IPA pronunciation added to the Kitsilano page, but it wasn't formatted with a template, so I decided to put it through the {{IPAc-en}} template. However, one of the IPA symbols you used, ɨ, was not recognized by the template, so I had to replace it with a different symbol. I replaced it with ə, making /kɪtsəˈlænoʊ/, which made the most sense to me. But I don't live in Vancouver, so I'm not 100% sure how Kitsilano is actually pronounced, so I wanted to ask you if there was a different IPA symbol that would be more correct here. Saucy^{[talk – contribs]} 23:30, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your choice. I feel like in Canadian English, the vowel in any syllable which is not stressed sort of morphs into the ə sound anyway. Zaurus (talk) 00:21, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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