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The article "Midwest Motor Express" was deleted.
The reason stated: A7: Article about a company, corporation, organization, or group which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject.
I would like to resurrect this article, but wanted to run it by you before I tried to do so.
I believe that this company is significant. It a multimillion dollar company that has been in operation since 1918, performing national LTL shipping in sixteen states with interline partners like Saia and New England Motor Freight to expand service to all of the US. It is involved international shipping to all major international ports.
Of particular note, Midwest Motor Express is known for standing up to labor unions, most notably the Teamsters, and successfully broke the Teamster strike in 1991.
Additionally, this article would not be an orphan; four pages link to this deleted page (granted that one is a disambiguation page, and another is a talk page). Both the Bismarck, ND and Teamsters pages link to Midwest Motor Express. This page could also link to the Saia article, which is currently an orphan.
Finally, if you would find it more appropriate, legally Midwest Motor Express is the primary branch of MME, Inc., which is the incorporation of Midwest Motor Express, Midnite Express, and Express Cartage. Perhaps the resurrected page should be MME, Inc. rather than Midwest Motor Express, which could redirect to the MME, Inc. page.
I am sure you will give this due consideration. Thank you for your time, and for the work you do for Wikipedia.
- Devon Waldron
PS: If you'd like to see a sandbox article first, I'd be happy to generate one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chronofied (talk • contribs) 16:26, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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Would it be possible if you can restore the deleted pages of Wide left and Harbaugh Bowl with their full edit histories in my userspace? I am planning on forming discussions regarding them, and I want them to be visible somewhere, since I will likely refer to them and want people participating in the discussions to be able to see them. Hellno2 (talk) 16:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
This is a gratuitous "Good judgement call!" message.
I am a fairly active member of Web of Trust (WOT), the browser safety extension (company is based in Finland, hxxp:// my wot dot com), as well as here on WP. WOT is sort of like Wikipedia in that most of the work is done by anonymous (though IP registered) volunteers. Anyway, I was trying to figure out what the story was with UBC Debate Society, the entity and the website.
There were a lot of inconsistencies in Domain Tools WHOis for the site, as well as contextual and fact-related oddities e.g. inconsistent naming, sometimes Debating Society, other times Debate Society, poor grammar and punctuation on the website, which shouldn't be the case for a university debate society, I don't think!
I noticed that AboutUs dot org, the website directory, noted UBC Debate Society with several listings in Wikipedia. That, along with a DMOZ listing and a Y! directory listing, are indicators of reputable websites with a decent history. But the DNS, reverse IP, screen shot history etc. was not looking too good. I checked on WP, saw the decision you helped to effect, specifically, to delete the Wikipedia entry as not notable. Good decision, by you and all the others who participated (I read the discussion log entry). While the society may have a lengthy history, it acknowledges on its own website that it was part of McGill University's Debate Society for a long time, not an independent organization. More important yet, it is not actually an official Univ of BC student society or club, but rather, a member of the UBC alumni organization's roster of clubs (despite being a club for students, not alumni). But worst of all was this language that I noticed on the UBC Debate Society website FAQ page:
In sum, we pay good debaters a ton of money to go all around the world and debate for us!
I was puzzled though. Pages of the sort that I would have thought were non-indexed are actually showing up in Domain Tools site inquiries for UC Debate Society. There shouldn't be any English Wikipedia entries for that website at this point in time, should there? However, there were at least four, and all led to pages on WP that aren't articles, but rather, Article talk pages, or archived pages etc. I don't know if this is a problem or not, but wanted to mention it.
If you want any further details (as though I haven't left you a lengthy enough comment!), please let me know. Just to make certain that this is clear, I am not requesting any action from you! I'm only here to say thank you and actually interact a bit, which I haven't done much of in my time with Wikipedia. If you would be so kind as to let me know that you received my message, at your convenience, no rush, because I read your user page and noted your many other commitments, that would be great. But I'm happy to be your very lowest priority! --FeralOink (talk) 14:09, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Phantom Steve. Well there's nothing wrong with writing the Wiki biographies if I leave my own article citations out, including Saddoboxing. Can the Henry Hascup entry stay up now without the Saddoboxing citation? Robert AKA Cocoruff
I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 09:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)