User talk:Gutflora
I am a colon therapist. I am associated with the probiotic sector for last 14 years.
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. DES (talk) 04:33, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Dear Des, I prepared the UAS Lab draft on my user page. Please follow the link to get it. Please suggest me if this looks Ok to you. With your inputs I will continue further. Thank you (Gutflora (talk) 23:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gutflora/UAS_Lab-draft.
The article was actually not tagged for speedy deletion, but for proposed deletion, a soemwhat differnt process. I have stopped this process. However, any editor can choose to nominate any article for deletion on the articles for deletion page at any time. There is no probationary period. I have put a note on Talk:UAS Laboratories but there is no mandate that anyone honor it.
It might be a good idea if you disclosed, on Talk:UAS Laboratories, what connection, if any, you have with UAS Labs. You might want to read our conflit of interst guideline since the editor who proposed deletion mentioned it. DES (talk) 01:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I did delete the page UAS Lab after another editor tagged it for speedy deletion. See our advertising deletion criterion.
Phrases like "a premier biotechnology company", "UAS Laboratories, Inc. serves over 34 countries around the world", "The company has recently continued its global expansion...", "UAS Laboratories, Inc. is an innovative, technology-driven company dedicated to promoting healthy living by providing superior quality probiotics", "Dr. Dash has been instrumental in expanding the knowledge of probiotics", "As a visionary and avid follower of probiotics, Dr. Dash...", "UAS Labs has developed several other premium nutritional supplements based upon the philosophy of high quality and innovation." are all very promotional, full of "Peacock terms" and promotional, non-objective adjectives. The whole thing reads as if it were copied from a company press-release, brochure or web site. (Note by the way that our copyright policy does not permit you or anyone to simply copy a web-site or press release into a Wikipedia article.)
The references were also not formatted correctly, but that is a minor issue that could be corrected.
The article as it stood was simply not acceptable under Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, but that does not meat that an acceptable article can not be created.
If you want to create a proper article on this firm, there are several things you will need to do.
- Write in a neutral tone and style, like an encyclopedia article, not like a company handout.
- Write in your own words, not copying from elsewhere except for quotes that are marked as such, and whose source is given.
- Provide independent Reliable sources that cover this company in some depth, and indicate why it is important or significant. This does not count blogs, company sites, business directory listings, or one-sentence mentions. Such source should be published and should be cited in the article.
You might want to consider creating a draft of the article in you user space -- for example at User:Gutflora/UAS Lab-draft. Then you could ask an experienced editor, such as myself or any other editor you see working on articles, to review your draft before moving it to the main article space. You could ask an Administrators for help, or visit Wikipedia:Highly Active Users or the Wikipedia:Help desk.
If you work for or with this company, please read our conflict of interest guideline. It is very hard for most people to stay neutral when editing about their own work.
If you have further questions feel free to ask on the help desk or my talk page. By the way please sign posts on discussion (not article) pages with four tildes (~~~~) -- the software will convert this into your username or signature and a timestamp. Also please add new threads to talk pages at the bottom.
I hope this is helpful. DES (talk) 17:03, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
- Either of your drafts is a plausible basis for going forward. i think the one at User:Gutflora/UAS Lab-draft was slightly better. I have taken the liberty of fixing the formatting of the references to a more Wikipedia-standard form, and of adding some additional references and information which I was able to find via a Google search.
- Note that this article draft is still rather marginal in terms of Notability. If you can find and add cites to news coverage of the company, it would help significantly. Not that this should be independent coverage, not press releases or stories obviously derived pretty much solely from press releases.
- When you think a draft is ready (or is as good as you can make it), you should move (rename) it to UAS Laboratories or some similar name. If you have other questions, feel free to ask me, or for a prompter and wider response, post at the Wikipedia:Help desk. DES (talk) 14:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, by the way, on my talk page as on most, please add new sections at the bottom of the page. DES (talk) 14:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
- It looks as if the problem is with the logo image file: Image:UAS Laboratories.svg. When I try to display it, not in the box but just oin its own page, i get the error message "XML Parsing Error: not well-formed". Ahh On looking into the matter I see that you uploaded this with a file extension of "svg", but it is actually a JPEG file, so the MediaWiki software (which runs Wikipedia) tried to open it as the wrong file type. I might add that "1,064 × 740 pixels, file size: 289 KB" is HUGE for a logo file. You only want to display this at 200 pixels (and even that is large). I will try to scale down and re-upload. DES (talk) 15:05, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- I have scaled this down and uploaded it as Image:UAS Laboratories Logo.png (the PNG format is better for this sort of largely geometric image), and incorporated that into the draft article. Note that the article is still quite marginal on notability. If you can find any other published sources, particularly mainstream news stories, they should be included as references. Printed stories not on the web can be used, see {{Cite news}}. DES (talk) 15:32, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
UAS Labs Logo Time limit
[edit]The Logo, being used under fair use, will need to be used in an articel within 7 days or it may be delted. See User talk:DESiegel#Orphaned non-free media (File:UAS_Laboratories_Logo.png). So if you can get ready to move User:Gutflora/UAS_Lab-draft to UAS Laboratories soon it will help. Otherwisae we may need to re-upload the logo when the articel draft is ready. DES (talk) 19:37, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
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