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A tag has been placed on Orlando Food Service, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which 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 guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{ hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. MuffledThud ( talk) 16:22, 10 February 2010 (UTC) reply

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself, as you did with Orlando Food Service. Please use the {{ hangon}} template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion, and make your case on the page's talk page. Thank you. JamesBWatson ( talk) 16:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC) reply

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from pages that you have created yourself, as you did with Orlando Food Service. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. MuffledThud ( talk) 16:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC) reply

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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. MuffledThud ( talk) 16:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC) reply

The article Cheney Brothers has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of notability

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{ dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{ dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JamesBWatson ( talk) 20:15, 14 February 2010 (UTC) reply

Hi, Cheney Ashley. I think for this article you're on the right track with the Business Journal ranking, but you should include that information and ranking in the usual way in the article text with the source as a cited reference. Simply stating that references of notability may be found on the website of the article's subject usually doesn't pass. If there are third party references there which provide validity to the notability of this company, include that information in the article and cite the original source. Also, consider the info in the Conflict of interest section above provided by MuffledThud. See also: WP:CONFLICT ( Steelerdon ( talk) 20:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)) reply

As you will see if you read the notability guideline, notability has to be established by third party sources: the company's own site cannot demonstrate notability. JamesBWatson ( talk) 21:52, 16 February 2010 (UTC) reply

I have nominated Cheney Brothers, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cheney Brothers. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. JamesBWatson ( talk) 11:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC) reply

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Cheney Brothers, Inc., and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.cheneybrothers.com/new/?page=html/pages/about_us/company_statement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot ( talk) 18:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC) reply

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