User talk:HeatherReisig

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Cardsdirect, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 19:20, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: User talk:Ioeth#CardsDirect.com deleted?

The reason that I deleted the Cardsdirect article was because it was written like an advertisement for the website, which is against Wikipedia's spam policy. Tiny Prints does also have an article, I see, and it is backed up with external sources, namely the one from CNN. Sources like that are particularly important, because they fulfill Wikipedia's verifiability policy and prove the notability of the company. If the subject of an article has no external references, then there is no way to verify the information in the article or to verify that the subject is, in fact, notable. Without providing reliable third party sources, the article will likely be deleted again, either by speedy deletion as it was before, or by PROD or AFD. If you want to recreate the article, the most important things are to make it encyclopedic (i.e., not sound like advertising) and to provide external sources. If you have any questions, leave a message on my talk page! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 20:18, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]