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The article RoomSaver has been 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 or service and which 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. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Also, please don't add advertising links to other articles. NawlinWiki (talk) 13:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just the links in the article. It's that the whole article is written in a promotional fashion, with lines like "has helped millions save on trips across the United States" and "RoomSaver.com unites the traveler and hotelier online, improving the way people research, locate and advertise hotel rooms." The citations are almost entirely to the company's own website. The fact that you added links to the RoomSaver article to pages like Road trip further shows that your purpose is to use Wikipedia to promote and advertise this company. That's not allowed, see WP:SPAM. NawlinWiki (talk) 13:58, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Per your request, the article copy is now in your userspace at User:BDHuneycutt/RoomSaver. NawlinWiki (talk) 14:11, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- - You really shouldn't have "see alsos" or redirects from pages like Road trip to the article -- it preferentially promotes a single business. (We don't have links to Exxon or McDonald's on the road trip page, even though those might also be useful to people on road trips.) When you're done revising the article, please drop me a note and let me look at it before you repost it to article space. And please find some *independent* sources. A big part of the problem with the article is that you're relying heavily on the company's own (not-unbiased) websites. NawlinWiki (talk) 14:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I posted to your talk page that I have updated and edited/added to the roomsaver page. I am curious if you can make it public now. Also, I was not referring to the redirects/see also's as in the road trip case (i understand the issue there), I am asking how to make keywords like : "roomsaver.com" and "room saver" as well as the prior trademarked names of the company redirect to the roomsaver page when searched in the search engine? Also, can I add a link to the Dominion Enterprise page since that is a parent company and to other pages listing competitors in the discount travel industry?

- - - Sorry. The sources you cited are PR sites, press releases, and travel guides which appear to just republish information provided by travel companies such as RoomSaver. The whole article still reads like one big puff piece -- "here's why this company is so great and why it helps travelers so much." If you disagree, you can go to Wikipedia:Deletion review and follow the instructions there. (PS - your redirects were procedurally correct - I deleted them because they linked to a deleted page.) NawlinWiki (talk) 16:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can understand that some of the cited pages are PR/press release sites. But these PR sites are simply listing website updates, which are legitimate. I also have listed a large number of news paper articles that I searched on a University Database. You can not say that those are unacceptable sources. Majority of the references are from these newspaper articles and cited correctly, according to the database citation provided. Please reconsider you ruling.

I am going to reinstate the article, and immediately list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion for a full discussion of whether the article should be kept. You can make your arguments there. NawlinWiki (talk) 16:51, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for telling me that, I did not know. --BDHuneycutt (talk) 19:57, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]