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Speedy deletion of Spectec

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Speedy deletion nomination of SpecTec

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A tag has been placed on SpecTec requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Nomination of SpecTec for deletion

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Manchester Wikimedia Meetup number 14

As you requested a reminder, I'm doing just that!

meta:Meetup/Manchester/14

Saturday 25th August 2012, 13:00 onwards

The Sir Ralph Abercromby, 35 Bootle Street, M2 5GU

See you there! --RexxS (talk) 18:53, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Good to meet you

Hi Paul. It was great to meet you on Saturday, hopefully we'll meet again at another one in the future! I had a look into SpecTec and I've got to say I'm on the fence as to whether the company meets Wikipedia's standards or not, primarily due to the difficulty in getting past Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) - and the large number of editors who try to create articles on their own companies. It's true that an awful lot have slipped through the net and should be deleted, but the other stuff exists argument doesn't hold much weight on Wikipedia, primarily because it's a perpetual work-in-progress.

Having said that, I have found a fair amount of coverage of SpecTec's initial merger with two other companies to create Xantic and then some more on the splitting off. I've also found an interview with Giampiero Soncini, which seems interesting, though I need to do a bit more investigation into the reliability of the sources. I'd suggest spending a little time sandboxing an article, say at User:Paul Ashton/SpecTec, and I could give you a hand. May not be an exceptionally fast process as I'm a touch busy, but I think there's a good chance that we could get an article which shows lasting notability of the company. Worm^TT(talk) 13:13, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Julie E Gordon

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Next meetups in North England

Hello. Would you be interested in attending one of the next wikimeets in the north of England? They will take place in:

Leeds on 12th April 2015
Manchester on 26th April 2015
Liverpool on 24th May 2015

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Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:44, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help us improve wikimeets by filling in the UK Wikimeet survey!

Hello! I'm running a survey to identify the best way to notify Wikimedians about upcoming UK wikimeets (informal, in-person social meetings of Wikimedians), and to see if we can improve UK wikimeets to make them accessible and attractive to more editors and readers. All questions are optional, and it will take about 10 minutes to complete. Please fill it in at:

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Manchester meetup 36 - 9 June 2019

As you attended one of the previous two Manchester meetups and/or expressed an interest in being notified about future ones, this is a heads-up that I have started organising a meetup in Manchester on 9 June 2019 - details are at m:Meetup/Manchester/36. Please feel free to invite others with an interest in Wikimedia/Wikipedia to join us. Thryduulf (talk) 23:10, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]