User talk:Michael liu99

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Getac, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://web.archive.org/web/20060517005700/http://www.getac.com/about.htm. As a copyright violation, Getac appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Getac has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

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However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 04:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Michael. It looks like you are interested in adding information on Getac to Wikipedia. Do you have any links to reliable sources that are independent of the Getac company? I.e. do you have something that isn't a Getac website and something that isn't a press release or from a promotional or marketing company/department so that I can use to verify the information you've provided on Getac? It would be much appreciated. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 17:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a third party site that does reviews. http://www.ruggedpcreview.com These are some links: http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_getac_a770.html http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_getac_m220.html http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_getac_w130.html

Another third party site: http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/11/getac_m220.html

An article from PC World computing center comparing Panasonic and Getac http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2306p099id120342.htm

An article from Government Computing News comparing Itronix and Getac http://www.gcn.com/print/24_2/34841-1.html

Michael Liu

Since those sites are unable to verify some parts of the content, how about the following modified information:

GETAC is a rugged computer manufacturer based in CA, USA a division of the international company, Mitac Technology Corporation, based in Taiwan. GETAC market products in federal government(military and public safety), field service, utility, transportation, telecommunication, construction, heavy industrial, mining and refining. GETAC fully rugged products are tested to withstand the MIL-STD 810f and IP54 standards.

GETAC's nearest competitors in the United States are Panasonic and Itronix, both rugged computing solution providers.

Thank you Michael. That is more than enough information for me. However, it seems that an admin deleted the article again. Both times the article was deleted, this was the reason given: "Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service, or person and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic." (from this page) I did not delete the article and since I can no longer view the article in the state it was before it was deleted, I can't agree or disagree with the decision made. Sorry. If you want more information on how to make the article pass that criterion, read Wikipedia:Spam or talk to one of the admins that deleted the page. If you happen to work for Getac or are affiliated with the company in some way, I would suggest, however, that you don't continue to try to write the article (Wikipedia:Conflict of interest). ~a (user • talk • contribs) 11:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]