User talk:Marketword

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[edit] Carrier Ethernet

A tag has been placed on Carrier Ethernet, 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 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. -- Shadowlynk (Talk) 18:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article deletion

I don't suspect you are going to get a further reply from SchuminWeb, so I will give you a bit more information on the deletion of Carrier Ethernet. It does come across as spam because its text is promotional in nature; it is promoting the technology. Perhaps it is not "spam" but it is definitely not written in an encyclopedic tone, and it is definitely a copyright violation because you copied it from material on the Metro Ethernet Forum. That site contains a copyright notice. Therefore, its material cannot be used on Wikipedia. You have to write about the technology in your own words.

If you want to have the article here, I would recommend that you construct a draft (written in your own words) and make sure it is encyclopedic prose. Less about how good the technology is and more just plan facts about how it works, etc. Thanks --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 19:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Spike very much for taking the time to respond and for the advice. Yes I know it's on the MEF site. I put it there along with the copyright notice. I think I'll have that replaced with a link to a legal notice page which will free up the use! Actually the copyright was intended for the site design not the content. The MEF technical specifications and presentations specifically encourage free distribution. I'm told that the site got a 900k hits last month so there is a lot of interest in the topic.

I can easily create a more encyclopedic form. I guess the one challenge is that since I was the one responsible for the wording it's in my own words already. So I'm copying my own work! The other is that the intention is to make the definition very exact and clear. I'm not sure how or what it means to post a "draft" but I'll figure that out. It's all a learning experience. --Marketword 23:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Cool deal. If you want people to use the content, I recommend licensing it under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). That way it can be used on Wikipedia with attribution required. To work on a draft, I recommend making a subpage of your user page called "sandbox". That way you can post the text and play with it until it is ready to move to article space. For example, User:Marketwork/sandbox. Hope this helps. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 23:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

More good stuff. Thanks for the free ed.--Marketword 23:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

And don't forget - we need third-party reliable sources so that we can verify your information. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:20, 4 July 2007 (UTC)