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I've restored this page; it had been tagged for speedy deletion after having been reduced to a statement that the article had been deleted because the subject didn't exist. I still have concerns about this article that I think need to be addressed. Although I did a Google search that gave me enough references to make it reasonable that this division of HP actually exists, the article has a distinct lack of sources that would tend to confirm that fact and contains phrases like "legend has it" that are contrary to the reliable sources policy. The main article for Hewlett-Packard doesn't contain any reference to this division, which brings questions of notability to my mind. As well, the exterior link at the end doesn't seem to contain any reference to the subject of the article. I urge either the creator or other editors to bolster this article by addressing these issues. Accounting4Taste: talk 18:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
The HP SPaM article that I created has been tagged for speedily deleted from Wikipedia because it is considered as Patent Nonsense, providing no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.
The article itself talks about an internal consulting group that is well-known within Operations Research / Management Science community. Wikipedia is the right forum to allow practitioners in other fields to learn of its existence and roles in corporation, in addition to HP Labs where we have been collaborating with them regularly. Similar groups in other companies have also been recognized and featured in magazine/article.
The article is not yet complete with remaining content to be contributed by others in the spirits of Wikipedia. So I do not see how the article is classified as having no meaningful content, especially when it is at its early stage. I'd therefore like to request that the article be carefully reviewed for undeletion.
Best Regards, Apiruk.d ( talk) 16:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I am not a vandal. Is it possible that some of the other editors out there not only have the ability to read, but that they actually exercise this skill before throwing around accusations of vandalism? Please read this sequence of posts:
Hi, the recent edit you made to HP SPaM has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. Loren.wilton ( talk) 14:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at what you're reverting. This article is a nonsense article created by a vandal, and I was just calling a spade a spade. Who's the vandal, the guy who does the graffiti or the guy who washes it off the wall? 74.234.39.218 ( talk) 14:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to HP SPaM. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Zenlax T C S 19:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to HP SPaM, you will be blocked from editing. Df747jet ( talk) 20:12, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
* Notice that none of these Johnny-come-latelies has provided that they actually read the content of the discussions that preceded my edits. One editor's thoughtful response consisted of correcting my spelling error on a talk page. How petty can you get? Talk about avoiding the real issues. Another of these "editors" took the time to remove my reply from his talk page--I guess he doesn't like it when discussions get "intense". I will give Accounting4Taste credit for at least pausing and thinking about the issue, even if he did get totally punked by this vandal. But everyone is calling me a vandal, when I'm the one removing the graffiti. Could you people please get a clue and look into things before you label someone a vandal? I'm the only one here actually defending the sanctity of this encyclopedia; the rest of your are mucking around in procedural crap while you allow this vandal to make a laughingstock of you all. 74.234.39.218 ( talk) 21:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not a punk or vandal and neither are the other members of our team nor the other members of the Ops Research or Supply Chain community who are familiar with our work. The acronym for our group is unfortunate in this context. Also, I agree that we may need to work toward adding content that would be of wider interest than our group. That is where our focus is and why this particualr discussion thread should come to an end. Thanks for your (74.234.39.218 & Accounting4Taste) diligence in making sure that the content in wikipedia is legit. 99.139.66.52 ( talk) 07:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
A couple of the refs don't mention SPaM, another is a .pdf which is mainly about IDEO and has one paragraph about SPaM. There are no google news articles which mention "SPaMsters" in the context of a name for members of a "Strategic Planning and Modelling" group. The award by INFORM was to Hewlett Packard, itself, not solely to the "Hewlett Packard Strategic Planning and Marketing" group. The papers written listed here are attributed to the individual people who have written them. They may be members of SPaM, but these articles aren't written by SPaM, but by the individual people involved, it is misleading in the same way as saying SPAM won the inform prize, when it is Hewlett Packard as a whole that won. Here we have it the other way round- the article is claiming SPaM wrote these articles, but it is individual people who have written them and gained the notability from them, not SPaM as a whole. special, random, Merkinsmum 11:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC) The only google mentions of HP SPaM are on summaries of 2 people's (perhaps notable in themselves) careers (a sentence in a brief, paragraph-long resumes of a speaker or consultant, for instance). There are no google news mentions of HP SPaM. special, random, Merkinsmum 11:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC) I have no doubt it exists- but notability is not inherited and this is not notable in and of itself, independent of the Hewlett Packard article. special, random, Merkinsmum 11:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
This article was written with the pronoun "we", which means in all probability that a member of SPaM wrote it. It must be either that or it has been copied from somewhere. special, random, Merkinsmum 19:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Fellow editors, let's not get carried away. (I came here due to the posting at WP:COIN). The name of this article is (unfortunately) quite likely to set off alarms here. I'm hoping that the creator, User:Apiruk.d, is willing to work with us to improve the article. I'll make an attempt to contact him. If nothing works, I agree that AfD might be considered in a week or so. EdJohnston ( talk) 18:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Not to be picky, but the various comments on the activities of the SPaM group are super-vague. For example, here is some of the language from the INFORMS award, which is #2 in the reference list: These rigorous modeling and analytical methods have saved Hewlett-Packard and its supply chain partners hundreds of millions of dollars while increasing their competitive advantage. We know that they USE modeling and analytical methods, but applied to what? So far these comments just seem to be describing the corporate role of the group, not any actual activities. EdJohnston ( talk) 14:22, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
There are too many items in the publication list. Isn't there a website somewhere we could send people to for complete details? Also we have no hint of what work Billington actually did. Can't anyone give examples? He must have been a persuasive guy if he got Lew Platt to agree to start the group, and we assume that his work must have led to some results. Can't anyone give a hint of what the results were? EdJohnston ( talk) 14:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Hint: only one article, which was not how I got here (I was playing with Random Article). I really don't see why this article is still here. How is it important? That Jason ( talk) 22:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
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I've restored this page; it had been tagged for speedy deletion after having been reduced to a statement that the article had been deleted because the subject didn't exist. I still have concerns about this article that I think need to be addressed. Although I did a Google search that gave me enough references to make it reasonable that this division of HP actually exists, the article has a distinct lack of sources that would tend to confirm that fact and contains phrases like "legend has it" that are contrary to the reliable sources policy. The main article for Hewlett-Packard doesn't contain any reference to this division, which brings questions of notability to my mind. As well, the exterior link at the end doesn't seem to contain any reference to the subject of the article. I urge either the creator or other editors to bolster this article by addressing these issues. Accounting4Taste: talk 18:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
The HP SPaM article that I created has been tagged for speedily deleted from Wikipedia because it is considered as Patent Nonsense, providing no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.
The article itself talks about an internal consulting group that is well-known within Operations Research / Management Science community. Wikipedia is the right forum to allow practitioners in other fields to learn of its existence and roles in corporation, in addition to HP Labs where we have been collaborating with them regularly. Similar groups in other companies have also been recognized and featured in magazine/article.
The article is not yet complete with remaining content to be contributed by others in the spirits of Wikipedia. So I do not see how the article is classified as having no meaningful content, especially when it is at its early stage. I'd therefore like to request that the article be carefully reviewed for undeletion.
Best Regards, Apiruk.d ( talk) 16:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I am not a vandal. Is it possible that some of the other editors out there not only have the ability to read, but that they actually exercise this skill before throwing around accusations of vandalism? Please read this sequence of posts:
Hi, the recent edit you made to HP SPaM has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. Loren.wilton ( talk) 14:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Please take a look at what you're reverting. This article is a nonsense article created by a vandal, and I was just calling a spade a spade. Who's the vandal, the guy who does the graffiti or the guy who washes it off the wall? 74.234.39.218 ( talk) 14:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to HP SPaM. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Zenlax T C S 19:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to HP SPaM, you will be blocked from editing. Df747jet ( talk) 20:12, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
* Notice that none of these Johnny-come-latelies has provided that they actually read the content of the discussions that preceded my edits. One editor's thoughtful response consisted of correcting my spelling error on a talk page. How petty can you get? Talk about avoiding the real issues. Another of these "editors" took the time to remove my reply from his talk page--I guess he doesn't like it when discussions get "intense". I will give Accounting4Taste credit for at least pausing and thinking about the issue, even if he did get totally punked by this vandal. But everyone is calling me a vandal, when I'm the one removing the graffiti. Could you people please get a clue and look into things before you label someone a vandal? I'm the only one here actually defending the sanctity of this encyclopedia; the rest of your are mucking around in procedural crap while you allow this vandal to make a laughingstock of you all. 74.234.39.218 ( talk) 21:00, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not a punk or vandal and neither are the other members of our team nor the other members of the Ops Research or Supply Chain community who are familiar with our work. The acronym for our group is unfortunate in this context. Also, I agree that we may need to work toward adding content that would be of wider interest than our group. That is where our focus is and why this particualr discussion thread should come to an end. Thanks for your (74.234.39.218 & Accounting4Taste) diligence in making sure that the content in wikipedia is legit. 99.139.66.52 ( talk) 07:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
A couple of the refs don't mention SPaM, another is a .pdf which is mainly about IDEO and has one paragraph about SPaM. There are no google news articles which mention "SPaMsters" in the context of a name for members of a "Strategic Planning and Modelling" group. The award by INFORM was to Hewlett Packard, itself, not solely to the "Hewlett Packard Strategic Planning and Marketing" group. The papers written listed here are attributed to the individual people who have written them. They may be members of SPaM, but these articles aren't written by SPaM, but by the individual people involved, it is misleading in the same way as saying SPAM won the inform prize, when it is Hewlett Packard as a whole that won. Here we have it the other way round- the article is claiming SPaM wrote these articles, but it is individual people who have written them and gained the notability from them, not SPaM as a whole. special, random, Merkinsmum 11:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC) The only google mentions of HP SPaM are on summaries of 2 people's (perhaps notable in themselves) careers (a sentence in a brief, paragraph-long resumes of a speaker or consultant, for instance). There are no google news mentions of HP SPaM. special, random, Merkinsmum 11:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC) I have no doubt it exists- but notability is not inherited and this is not notable in and of itself, independent of the Hewlett Packard article. special, random, Merkinsmum 11:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
This article was written with the pronoun "we", which means in all probability that a member of SPaM wrote it. It must be either that or it has been copied from somewhere. special, random, Merkinsmum 19:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Fellow editors, let's not get carried away. (I came here due to the posting at WP:COIN). The name of this article is (unfortunately) quite likely to set off alarms here. I'm hoping that the creator, User:Apiruk.d, is willing to work with us to improve the article. I'll make an attempt to contact him. If nothing works, I agree that AfD might be considered in a week or so. EdJohnston ( talk) 18:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Not to be picky, but the various comments on the activities of the SPaM group are super-vague. For example, here is some of the language from the INFORMS award, which is #2 in the reference list: These rigorous modeling and analytical methods have saved Hewlett-Packard and its supply chain partners hundreds of millions of dollars while increasing their competitive advantage. We know that they USE modeling and analytical methods, but applied to what? So far these comments just seem to be describing the corporate role of the group, not any actual activities. EdJohnston ( talk) 14:22, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
There are too many items in the publication list. Isn't there a website somewhere we could send people to for complete details? Also we have no hint of what work Billington actually did. Can't anyone give examples? He must have been a persuasive guy if he got Lew Platt to agree to start the group, and we assume that his work must have led to some results. Can't anyone give a hint of what the results were? EdJohnston ( talk) 14:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Hint: only one article, which was not how I got here (I was playing with Random Article). I really don't see why this article is still here. How is it important? That Jason ( talk) 22:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
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