User talk:Bmikerob

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Michael A. Robinson
Hi Bmikerob. Thanks for getting in touch with me at my talk page but it wasn't me who declined your article. If you look at the bottom of the notice on your talk page you will see it was MrT3366 who declined your article. All I did was welcome you. In any event, I do review articles and may be able to provide some guidance. (By the way please sign your posts when you leave a message on a talk page, it makes it easier to find you - instructions are at the top of my welcome message.)

With respect to the article... First, you may have a conflict that a reviewer might take issue with since your user name suggests you likely are Michael Robinson and/or closely connected with him through the company BmikeRob - writing articles about oneself or someone you are closely connected to is discouraged around here since it is hard to be neutral and objective, both of which are required before an article will be accepted. Please review wikipedia's guidance regarding neutral point of view and conflict of interest information.

Secondly, try to remember that what you are writing is an encyclopedia article so everything in it, particularly personal information about a living person, must be properly sourced. Sources relied upon must not only be independent but reliable. It isn't that MrT3366 didn't think Mr. Robinson to be notable, the decline notice indicates that he rejected the article because your sources didn't establish his notability. The criteria for notability of a person can be found at THIS PAGE. It is a basic requirement that the subject not only be notable but that sufficient independent, reliable sources have discussed him or written about him that his notability is objectively verifiable through those sources. Youtube, standing alone, will not be considered a reliable source. I note, however, in your opening you refer to San Jose Mercury but don't cite it. If you include quotes from newspaper articles, you will need to provide the citation for the article and, preferably, a link to it so people can go to the article and see it. That would be an independent source.

None of the information in your article about Michael Robinson is sourced at all. Information about a living person that may be challenged will be removed from an article. See the help page concerning biographies of living people and on that same page sources for biographies. Sources such as the company website, personal websites, and twitter are not considered to be independent of the subject. Also, reverbnation is a blocked site at Wikipedia so you can not cite it as a source.

It may well be that Michael Robinson is extremely notable but there is no way to verify the information in your article through independent sources at the moment. Please provide sources for the information in your article and resubmit it.

If I can be of any further assistance, please feel free to contact me at my talk page. Snowysusan (talk) 08:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Michael A. Robinson concern
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