User talk:Bebutler2012/Work motivation

This article is what our group from Dr. Tagler's class. If there is any information you can offer us to help, please let us know! Jastha08 (talk) 20:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I know this falls under the speedy deletion, but we are working on it to complete the reference list right now. Any help would be appreciated. Jastha08 (talk) 21:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (My group is working on this page for a class on Industrial Psychology. We needed wanted to link this page to our class's website. We are working on this page as it relates to I/O Psychology. We will be adding references from books and scientific articles, we just need the time to do so. As I am typing this, one of my partners is working on completing the reference list. We are all new to editing Wikipedia. In short, all we wanted to do was to link something to our class's webpage to show we had started working on Work Motivation. This is NOT for promotional purposes, but as a starting page from which we can grow and add something useful to Wikipedia. ) --Jastha08 (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Notability and deletion
Hi all,
 * The most common reason for articles being deleted is that they fall short of wikipedia's "notability" guideline. As a rule of thumb, notability means substantial coverage in independent sources. For instance, if you want to write about your favourite business, listings & directories aren't enough (it's not substantial coverage), and the business' website isn't enough (it's not independent) but a 2-page article in the Economist is a perfect foundation.
 * Unfortunately, lots of non-notable articles get created all the time, so the people who patrol new articles can sometimes shoot first and ask questions later. They're only human, as we all are, and there's lots of spam and self-promotion out there.
 * If you want to "defend" a new article against deletion, the first thing to do is make the notability really obvious in the short term, until the article has obviously developed a bit more and grown naturally. I see lots of substantial, independent coverage of work motivation here - if you ensure that a few items like that are clearly referred to through the article (especially if the reference list contains a couple of texts which obviously have "work motivation" in their title), passers-by are less likely to assume that it's non-notable.

If in doubt, look at sources. As well as proving notability, sources should be the foundation of content that you put in the article. bobrayner (talk) 10:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I am now forming a working definition of Work Motivation and as working on possible different sections, which include different theories related to Work Motivation (some of which already have Wikipedia pages made that I can link) More or less, I am now ready to start this and get things ready. Jastha08 (talk) 21:29, 23 February 2012 (UTC)