User talk:AgentLady

Welcome
 Hello AgentLady, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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AgentLady, good luck, and have fun. – Aboutmovies (talk) 06:09, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Need help?
Hi, I saw you put a Help me template on the page, but didn't see any question. If you need help, feel free to put up another help request together with your question, or pop in to the tea house, which is linked above. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 10:53, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes! See what a novice I am? I can't even ask for help properly! I created a new page (article?) for a new author, whom I represent, (publishing co,), and know personally, and it doesn't appear in any of the Wiki searches. I'm trying to boost her visibility to "get her name out there", but I am not not having any luck. Can you seed the section I created on M. E. White? Is there a step I missed in the posting process? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgentLady (talk • contribs) 11:48, 9 March 2014‎


 * It appears what you wrote was named "M. E. White - Writer", which is a user page, not an article. There are a couple of other problems. First of all, you should take a look at our guideline on conflicts of interest; writing about a personal acquaintance you're also workinng for is usually a bad idea because it's very difficult to maintain a neutral point of view. Secondly, Wikipedia is not the place to promote someone and "get her name out there" - we only have articles on people who already are notable. Notability is established by significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as newspaper articles about her or independent book reviews (not paid reviews, not press releases, not her publisher (if any), not social media). Besides establishing the subject's notability we also need those sources to allow our readers to verify the article's content, and they're strictly required for biographies of living persons. Your draft had none of that and thus clearly is not ready to become an article (if White is notable enough in the first place, which seems doubtful). For now I have moved it to a sub-page of your own user page, User:AgentLady/M. E. White, and added a "userspace draft" header. Once you think the draft is ready for publication, you can submit it for a review by following the "Submit the page" link in that header. Huon (talk) 14:45, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry. I know as Wiki page can't be created by the person him/herself, but I didn't realize my creating one for someone else would also be considered a conflict of interest. I'll delete everything I have created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgentLady (talk • contribs) 13:30, 11 March 2014‎


 * Reply to Help me request: There's no need to delete what you've written.  Please read Huon's message more carefully.  You just need to be cautious and be sure to follow the rules.  But nothing says you cannot create or edit the article.  You just need to insure that you maintain a neutral point of view and provide reliable sources for all the facts in the article.  Also you should be sure to explain why the subject of the article is notable enough to be included in the encyclopedia.  —     Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 14:22, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:AgentLady/M. E. White
User:AgentLady/M. E. White, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AgentLady/M. E. White and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:AgentLady/M. E. White during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 02:51, 14 March 2016 (UTC)