User talk:Biksco
A tag has been placed on Velma's Kettle Corn, 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 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.
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. John254 02:02, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
The biggest problem with Velma's Kettle Corn was that the article was written in the tone of an advertisement, including substantial praise for the product, and locations at which the product might be purchased. Like all Wikipedia articles, articles concerning consumer products should be written from a neutral point of view. Furthermore, Wikipedia's notability guideline is often applied quite stringently to consumer products. To establish the notability of Velma's Kettle Corn, you would need to show that this product "has been the subject of secondary sources... [which are] reliable, independent of the subject and independent of each other". Finally, you describe Velma's Kettle Corn as "my product". If you do indeed have a significant financial interest this product, either through ownership of the company which produces it, as an employee this company, or otherwise, you should not create a Wikipedia article concerning it, as this would be considered a conflict of interest. John254 01:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Image:Kettle_corn_guys.jpg listed for deletion
[edit]An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Kettle_corn_guys.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 23:40, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
