User talk:Dbmays

Welcome!

Hello, Dbmays, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Diversified Technology, Inc.

Hi Dbmays. The above article was deleted because it was a straight cut-and-paste job from this website. This is, of course, against the law (see Wikipedia's page on copyrights). Also, because the article was a straight copy from a website, it read like an advertisement. Since Wikipedia is operated by a not-for-profit trust, staffed by volunteers and funded by donation, we take a dim view of unpaid-for advertising appearing on our advert-free pages. Partially this is because such advertising is just theft from a charity, but also because it affects peoples' perceptions of what we are for.

As for your note about the rival company, yes, that article isn't very good and probably needs looking at. However, we don't allow articles in just because other articles exist. I hope this helps. RΞDVΞRS ✖ ЯΞVΞЯSΞ 10:09, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

The relevant guide for this article is probably WP:CORP which you'll see from the primary criterion one of the issues of being over reliant on sources too closely connected to the company. --pgk 21:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Dti logo 182x45.jpg)

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:DTI Logo.jpg

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