Talk:Minicom Advanced Systems
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Kelly97 13:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)The page is not blatant advertising but rather a factual entry about its existence and operation.
Sorry if you think that. If you think there is anything offending I will remove it but dont think there is any reason to delete the page
Regards,
Kelly
- The reason I flagged this article is because it doesn't assert much notability by the guidelines for corporate notability, and reads much like ad copy-the company's environmental compliance, for example, would be something likely to be prominently featured in an ad. Are there reliable sources who have provided non-trivial coverage of the company from which an article could be written, and from which the statements in it could be sourced? Seraphimblade 11:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Note to admins: when deciding whether to delete this, it may be worth reading User talk:Kelly97#Helpme request, a helpme request related to this article. --ais523 13:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear SeraphimBlade, I was a bit nervous about doing things which would sounds too notable because ironically I didn't want it to sounds too much like ad copy. And again paradoxically I thought the environmental stuff was the type of thing you like. If you want reliable sources I can give them to you - do you have a regular email address?Kelly97 13:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Seraphimblade's Wikipedia email is disabled (or was never enabled in the first place), so it's unlikely they'll give an email address here. If you have sources, put them either here in the Talk page, or preferably in the article, so anyone can check them. --ais523 13:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I believe the company conforms with Point 2 of notability guidelines in that it is listed as one of the Fastest 50 growing technology companies as recognised by the accounting firm Deloitte Brightman Almagor. As a result it has been named as one of the fastest 500 technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa again judged by Deloitte. [1] Kelly97 15:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- I've enabled my email (just go to my user page and hit "e-mail this user", I prefer not to put it on web pages since it tends to get spambot-harvested that way. I'll remove the speedy tag for now as the article is evidently being worked on, and will help a bit with cleanup as well. Seraphimblade 15:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- When I go to Special:Emailuser/Seraphimblade, I get the message "This user has not specified a valid e-mail address, or has chosen not to receive e-mail from other users.". Try going to your preferences and making sure it's been enabled. Special:Emailuser/ais523 returns an 'email this user' page for me, so you can probably check your own email page to see if it works for you. --ais523 15:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I tried your email address as well and it didnt work Kelly97 15:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Seems not to have saved the new preferences the first time (or I screwed up). Should work now though? Seraphimblade 15:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright problems
Afraid there's another issue here-the original text of this was a copyright violation from [2]. Unless you can document that you have permission to release that text under the GNU Free Documentation License, this'll have to go regardless, although it can be recreated if notability can be established. I'm having a bit of trouble there though-the Intel connection appears to be only venture capital, and the other page verifies effectively nothing that's said here. Seraphimblade 15:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
What about this article for referring to the Intel investment instead? [3] Would that be more appropriate? Kelly97 15:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
There is this article as well. [4] Kelly97 15:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Those would be much better. However, this still does not solve the underlying copyright concern-even if the article were blanked and rewritten, the copyrighted content would remain in page history. I believe the best course of action at this point may be to have an administrator delete the article as a copyright concern (you can request this by placing a template such as the following on the article: {{db|Article is in unintentional violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy, author requests deletion in order to start over}}.) You may want to look at the policy on copyrights for more information-I think this company would meet notability, but in order to avoid copyright concerns it still must be written in our own words. I'll save the sources you have there to my userspace so that they will not be lost. Seraphimblade 16:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Actually, appears I was incorrect-the copied text was only a paragraph and is properly attributed. I don't think that should be an issue. Seraphimblade 17:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
