User talk:Barentsz
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[edit] Bedrocan
A tag has been placed on Bedrocan, 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 the article 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. CobaltBlueTony 20:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button 
located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! - CobaltBlueTony 21:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for that advice. I placed the four tilde-s on the end of the discussion. Like you, I like cold weather too. Barentsz 21:23, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Deletion of Bedrocan
Another contributor has marked the page for speedy deletion as obvious promotional, and I have complied with the request since the page consisted of little more than marketing. Even if the article were re-written, it might not be appropriate for Wikipedia; please see the notability guidelines for companies and other organizations, including their products. Regards, Mike Rosoft 22:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- These instructions are only for convenience of administrators; they are not official policy. A talk page of an article that has been deleted is a candidate for speedy deletion as well, unless there is a good reason to preserve the discussion. (If you want me to, I may recover the text and put it on your talk page.) Please tell me: if both the article and the talk page is going to end up deleted, how does it matter in what order I delete them? - Mike Rosoft 06:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
- I see; you aren't a representative of a company selling the medicine, but rather a patient who had it prescribed. I am afraid this makes little difference. Cannabis as a medicine (and its legal status in different countries, etc.) is an appropriate topic for an encyclopedia; indeed, we already have the article medical cannabis. One company's product containing/derived from cannabis (especially when the article includes its price, legal and medical advice to users, etc.) generally isn't; at least, not unless the product has attracted significant third-party coverage. Of course, you can get a personal website and use it to publish information about the medicine and even post a notice that "this information is in public domain and may be freely used and re-used by others", if this is your intention and you are actually in a position to do that, i.e. you wrote the text yourself and didn't copy it from the company materials. (Note: Wikipedia content generally isn't in public domain, but rather GFDL-licensed.)
There's little point in recovering the talk page contents; you already reposted them on my talk page. If you want me to, I may instead recover the deleted article and e-mail it to you, so that you can post it on your website or find an alternative outlet for it (if you didn't save the text). Regards, Mike Rosoft 09:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
