On 10/6/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
SPUI wrote:
Fleshlight and its representatives have contacted us, asking that they have sole discretion over the content of the page, because any edits could ruin its advertising value. This is a non-notable product. The page was created solely for promotional purposes. It is now gone. Danny 01:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=fleshlight&btnG=Google+Search&am... seems "notable", verifiable, whatever. But our hands are tied by the office shit. Any company can now contact Danny, convince him that they are "non-notable", and get salted.
Wrong. Any company can contact Danny saying "hello, you keep changing our spam, can you let us have total control of the page?" and have it deleted as spam under CSD G11.
I hate to "me too" this, but... G11 doesn't trump legitimate notability.
Or if it does, shouldn't, and something is grossly wrong with policy.
As is, you have just handed a mechanism to any company to get their WP entries nuked.