User talk:Andreaupike

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Delivered on behalf of User:Sage Ross (WMF), 16:32, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Perfect Chemistry
I see your professor, Lynn Marie Hamilton, got a little mad about me labeling the article with a "conflict of interest" (COI) tag.

I just want to say that I have no idea who anyone is when the write an article. I can only go on experience. Articles about music, bands/singers, writers and books are the most common to have a COI, copyright problems or notability problems. So, when I see one of these, my spidey senses start a tingling. I first thought of a copyright violation as the article was written a little "too good". You don't normally see this out of first time editors. After a quick Google search, I didn't see anything copied. The references are almost all from the author's site. A fairly well written article with almost all refs from the author's site says nine out of 10 times there is a COI. I was wrong in this case.

I do have some suggestions about the article.
 * 1) References generally have to be independent and reliable.   References from the author's website about the awards she has won is not independent nor reliable.  Look for better references.
 * 2) Add an infobox to the page.  Infoboxes allow a reader to get information at a quick glance.  They also allow computers and search engines to get at the main info.  In this case, you would use Infobox_novel.
 * 3) Add some more wikilinks.  For example, you can add one for Walker Books for Young Readers.

Give me a yell on my talk page if you have any question or I can help out with something. Bgwhite (talk) 05:03, 8 May 2013 (UTC)