Talk:Shoreline Entertainment

message: I am creating this page on behalf of Shoreline Entertainment and Morris Ruskin as I am an employee of the company. The bio and photograph, which are also posted on imdb, are written by myself and therefore there cannot be a copyright issue. In fact, if you check the imdb page, the items are listed as being "from Shoreline Entertainment". Additioanlly, the text here is a rephrased and summarized version of what is on imdb. 
This is our official company profile and the photo of Morris we had taken ourselves. The profile also is whats used on our web site and press releases.
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replies: text: Ok, you've made your case for not speedying, and there is clearly notability here, but there are some things seriously wrong with this article. First, it was improper for you to write an article about your company. Despite your statement above, the article is not neutral, as it currently sits. It clearly reads like a promotional piece, and Wikipedia is not a place for you to promote or otherwise write about your company. Your article reads like spam, and I'm half tempted to delete it for that reason alone, as Wikipedia takes a really dim view of spam and people using the encyclopedia to promote their companies. I'll give you one chance to clean this up, and if it's not done, I'll consider this spam and treat it accordingly. Please review our Manual of style for things like use of bold text. AKRadecki 00:59, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm sorry you feel like I'm threatening, I'm not. I'm merely informing you as to what will happen per our policies should the article's tone not be siginficantly changed. Our criteria for deletion includes this: "Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service, or person and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic". Find a paper encyclopedia and read the tone of any article and then compare it to what you have written. You'll find that yours is written like a sales or promotional brochure, while an encyclopedia is written in a rather dry, academic style. You have liberally used bolding, which is not appropriate, and the article lacks a lead paragraph. The additional changes, unfortunately, do not suffice. I had suggested that you read the material I posted on your talk page, which covers what should - and shouldn't - be in an article, but it appears that you either haven't or have chosen to ignore it. I don't mean to be rude or harsh to a new editor, but you have continued to edit in a conflict-of-interest situation when you were advised not to, you have continued to upload photos that are in violation of our copyright rules. If you intend to be a regular editor around here, I strongly suggest you walk away from the articles where you have a conflict of interest, and edit in a neutral area. There's plenty of film subjects that could really use your input. The fact that you have choosen to continue editing in a conflict-of-interest situation, despite having been counselled not to, strongly suggests that your interest isn't in Wikipedia, but rather only in these particular articles, because they promote the company you work for. If you are being directed by your boss to do this, I'm sorry that you are being put in an awkward situation, but your boss needs to understand that this is simply not what Wikipedia is for. Now, if you are genuinely interested in learning better how to do all this editing stuff, read the material I gave you. AKRadecki 05:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Ok, I had a little time, so I trimmed it up. The Morris material belongs over on his page. I've removed all the hype language that made it look like a promotional piece. Now that you have an example of how it should be done, if you want to go fix those other pages you were referring to, that would be a good thing. AKRadecki 14:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
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