User talk:Jastout
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[edit]Hello, Jastout, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Hi. Please don't add back all that marketing-type material. The background is that over the last few days an IP and an account associated with the company edited the article into more or less of a marketing manifesto, to the point where it was speedy-deleted as an advertisement. See discussion on my talk page at User talk:JohnCD#Wikipedia page deletion where I told them that I would restore the previous version, but if the article was re-spammed it would be deleted again. When I saw all that stuff had been put back, I thought you must be the company's marketing department again, but I see you have been around for a bit, so I guess you were just being helpful.
We have a lot of trouble with companies who think Wikipedia is a free platform for PR, and they can't really be blamed because there is no explanation at sign-up time about what Wikipedia is not for, but we have to be ruthless if we are not to become another Myspace. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:33, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
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