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Focus (.com)

Hi Sogle. I've deleted this article since it didn't give any explanation of the company's importance. Also, you said it was mainly pulled from a press release: if that's so there may be copyright problems as Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material. It's possible the company is 'notable' enough for a Wikipedia article; I suggest you read our notability guideline and guideline on companies, which basically say that a topic can have an article if it's received significant coverage in sources such as books, newspapers, trade journals and so on. If you believe that such coverage does exist then feel free to recreate the article - you might want to make it as a draft in your own personal userspace first, say at User:Solge/Focus.com, before making it 'live'. If you do I can restore the deleted page for you - just let me know on my talk page. I recommend that you check for sources first though, since if they can't be found it will likely be deleted again. Do let me know if I can be of any help! Olaf Davis (talk) 18:08, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Moved your drafting page

I moved your drafting page from User:Solge/Focus.com to User:Sogle/Focus.com. I presume that its pre-move location was the result of a typographical error, but since User:Solge is a nonexistent account, it was going to get deleted if it stayed there. Good luck with your drafting and best regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 20:37, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Focus (.com)

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A tag has been placed on Focus (.com), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that 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 Focus (.com) 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 independent 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. Bagheera (talk) 23:20, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

FYI conflict of interest guideline

• see also: Wikipedia is not a soapbox and Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages?

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia in Focus (.com), User:Sogle/Focus.com, or other articles, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. – Athaenara ✉ 03:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space

Hey there Sogle, thank you for your contributions. I am a bot, alerting you that non-free files are not allowed in user or talk space. I removed some files I found on User:Sogle/Focus.com. In the future, please refrain from adding fair-use files to your user-space drafts or your talk page.

• See a log of files removed today here.

• Shut off the bot here.

• Report errors here.

Thank you, -- DASHBot (talk) 01:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Focus (.com) Logo.png

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Thanks for uploading File:Focus (.com) Logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:26, 9 May 2010 (UTC)