User talk:Paulrwalsh

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Dash signature[edit]

A tag has been placed on Dash signature, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article 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 general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --ROGER ^TALK 07:25, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spam links[edit]

I recently removed a whole host of links from the Virtual Studio Technology article. You have since added 2 links (and they have since been removed) that add nothing to the article. Please refrain from adding advertising to wiki. Steevm 14:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I removed all the links from VST in accordance with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided, where number 4 states quite clearly that:

"Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services." should be avoided.

Links to VST developers quite clearly fall under this category. I also posted my concerns on the talk page a while back, and the only user to respond shared my thoughts; no one posted any good reason for this info being included in the article. As I wrote on the talk page, the article is "Virtual Studio Technology", not "VST vendors".

furthermore, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory clearly states that "wikipedia is not a directory", and as such, articles are not:

"Directories, directory entries, electronic program guide, or a resource for conducting business. For example, an article on a radio station generally should not list upcoming events, current promotions, phone numbers, current schedules, etc., although mention of major events, promotions or historically significant programme lists and schedules may be acceptable. Furthermore, the Talk pages associated with an article are for talking about the article, not for conducting the business of the topic of the article. Wikipedia is not the yellow pages."

I would therefore argue that the section should never have been there in the first place.

I would suggest that if you disagree with the above assessment, we should probably discuss it on the article's talk page. Steevm 13:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Dash Signature[edit]

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Dash Signature, by Montco (talk · contribs), another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Dash Signature seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Dash Signature, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. --Android Mouse Bot 2 05:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there.

The long and short of why the page was deleted and the other page you mentioned lies in the essay WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS.

As an administrator, I serve as a janitor and not as a cop. I reviewed the speedy tag, the article, the article's history, and a quick google search before deleting the article. If you feel it is unfair that the other have its own article, you have as much recourse as the user who nominated your page for deletion. Tag it speedy, propose it for deletion, or nominate it for deletion. We do not act as police, it is not my obligation to sort through articles and actively root out what to delete.

So, if you'd like, you can take a moment and file a deletion review. There, other administrators will discussion the facts of Dash Signature itself. Other arguments, such as the one about Native Instruments, are irrelevant to the process. Each action is its own.

Thanks for contacting me, and happy editing to you. Keegan^talk 01:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]