Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/PRO-Tector™ technology

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The result of the debate was delete. — Trilobite (Talk) 02:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PRO-Tector™ technology

Can you say "advertising"? I knew you could. Delete. — JIP | Talk 8 July 2005 13:25 (UTC)

• Delete-agreed PeterLean 8 July 2005 13:30 (UTC)
• Comment As mentioned on the page - I am a new comer and you are requested not to bite off the heads of New Comers - as I have just been reading! -80.176.204.162
• Delete not notable, and the name is actually more widely known (but still not terribly notable) as a brand of camping equipment and bags [1] -Harmil 8 July 2005 14:18 (UTC)
• Comment So - you guys just delete my last request for help - and still don't help by offering any advice? I am sorry, but I find that really rude! You even deleted my apology so no-one else can see it and my offer to remove the page and my statment asking what I can and can not do - may I ask why? So no-one else can see that I am a newcomer just trying to add content and aking for help? I have just read you're not even suppossed to delete without justifying. The company has nothing to do with camping stuff and is called Nalpeiron - PRO-Tector is just their technology. Are you in the IT business?, but what's that got to do with it - is no-one going to help a new comer here? Do you want new editors to help here? Is anyone going to give any advice that may actually help me and move forward Wikipedia?

Hi there. No, I did not delete your comment, only the cut-and-paste of your previous comment from the article page (which anyone voting here should be looking at, anyway). You should read the comments that I left you at User talk:80.176.204.162, though creating a real user account would surely help out in our conducting this discussion.

As for the "camping stuff", what I was saying was that, if anything, the name "PRO-Tector" is notable only as a camping equipment brand, and no notability could be established for the software you reference. You see, Wikipedia doesn't just list anything, and there is a specific list of those things that Wikipedia is not for, that you should probably read.

Thank you for contributing. I know VfDs can seem rude and impersonal, but this is the kind of process that WP needs to have in place to keep the encyclopedic nature of the site thriving. I hope you understand and choose to contribute more in the future! For any further discussion, please use my talk page or yours -Harmil 8 July 2005 14:50 (UTC)

• Comment Thank you so much - now I'm getting somewhere. I will read your links and amend appropriatley. This is what I am looking for - what to do and what not to do - there is no real "start here" on the main page - so new comers don't know. Again - thank you.
• Delete, advertising for non-notable product. Dcarrano 16:54, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete™ - Thatdog 8 July 2005 19:01 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable ad. Fernando Rizo 8 July 2005 22:27 (UTC)
• Delete as advertising. --Carnildo 8 July 2005 23:28 (UTC)
• Delete nn ad. But note that the author appears to have actually taken the points raised constructively. He makes a good point about the main page, too. -Splash 9 July 2005 02:07 (UTC)
• Delete advertising. But since the poster is wailing that we don't help, I will tell him to go to Yellowikis. -- RHaworth 2005 July 9 06:37 (UTC)
• Comment Forgive my Wailing - are you all American by the way? Is this just a US based encyclopedia? I don't want to go to any listings, I just want to inform of new technology that I thought was relevant - obviously I have completely the wrong end of the stick. I see I have also had my entry on the main copy protection page deleted even though that had no advertising in it. Why - will someone tell me why? There's even still an advertisiment in their for Macrovision - so how does that stack up then? Why is this that you take such offence to outsiders trying to join in and add to this encyclopedia? Why is it instead of adding constructice advise to others you insist on continiung to say the same old thing - delete because of advertisng - when I'm only trying to find out what I can and can not do. Sorry if I have invaded your own private domain and you think I'm wailing. Neither are you in actual fact helping in anyway by sending me to a listing - why would that be of interest to me? I will remove all my listings and go elsewhere - meanwhile, this section on Digital Rights Management will remain woefully out of date and will not be of use to anyone. -(unsigned by 80.176.204.162)

I've said before, and I'll say again: create a real account, and I'll be happy to discuss this on your user page and address your concerns. You'll find that we're not just singling you out for some kind of random abuse, but implementing a well thought-out policy which is applied to everyone. -Harmil 17:22, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Whatever gave you the impression we're all Americans? Perhaps the most of us are, but a good deal of us aren't. As a case in point, I'm not American. I'm not even a native English speaker. I'm from Finland, northern Europe. And I definitely do not want this to be a US based encyclopedia. I've tried to weed out US-centrism from non-US-related articles as best as I can. — JIP | Talk 12:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Advertising. Though one of the better grade, still advertising. Unless the writer can rewrite it impartially(and how to write impartially is a subject of English language, not Wikipedia) it has no buisness in WP. Loom91 12:54, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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