User talk:Megageox

Tinsley advertising

A tag has been placed on Tinsley advertising, 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 Tinsley advertising 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. Bearian (talk) 19:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There have been a number of efforts to create a "Tinsley Advertising" article over the years

In each case, the "article" has been more advocacy than encyclopedic. In each case, the editor creating the article had made few or zero contributions to this project before creating the Tinsley article. In each case, the article was created without a capital letter on the "A"! One might almost suspect they were all the same editor. This latest one wasn't as bad, but still came across as advertising the firm and its clients. "Notoriety"? There were no sources, no references to articles in the mainstream press, etc. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you just do a Google Search on "Tinsley Advertising" you will see many of the mainstream press (ex: Business Week) that are references. Here are a couple (and more can be found in the Hype section of their site):

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00EFDE1738F93AA2575BC0A96F958260

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Feb_4/ai_53703115

http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/marketing-advertising-overview/6666685-1.html

http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/4191688-1.html

That's two articles about a client, a press release, and a squib from AdWeek. None of this meets our standards for notability of companies. Please read those. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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