User talk:C.J Hixon

Nomination of Liquid inspiration podcast for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Liquid inspiration podcast is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Liquid inspiration podcast until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. dci &#124;  TALK   00:44, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Liquid inspiration podcast


A tag has been placed on Liquid inspiration podcast requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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March 2012
Hello C.J Hixon. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Liquid inspiration podcast, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Talkback
Will post something else here in a moment or 6 Fiddle Faddle (talk) 01:23, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

How to get started
There's LOADS of stuff, most of it confusing as hell, all written by well intentioned folk. Not to be outdone I wrote User:Timtrent/A good article whcih seems to go down well with folk.

Your podcast article is, for the moment, likely to fail. You'll be upset at that, but don;t waste grief on it for more than 5 minutes. Wikipedia is a lousy place to promote one;s own work with because it just plain doesn't work. Links to external sites have the attribute rel="nofollow" in them and your site gets no value and trivial traffic. So forget about Wikipedia as a promotion tool. If the podcast is already notable, find the WP:RS articles and use them as citations for a future article you draft in your user space if this one gets deleted. There may be time to find and add WP:RS links to it, but I tend to doubt that. If it does get deleted, that;s Ok. the work won;t be lost of you ask the deleting admin to "userfy" it for you. You can work on it in your user space without much chance of interruption.

There are far better ways of promoting your enterprise than using this place. One of the best is Twitter, where self promotion is expected. Here it is so deprecated that folk get very cross about it. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 01:31, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Just checked . If you check each of these links against WP:RS I think you'll agree that you are not yet notable. It's a bummer, but it's true. So, for the moment, upsetting though that is, your efforts to get LIP on Wikipedia are unlikely to succeed. When you're famous, Wikipedia will be ecstatic to have an article on it/you, but ideally written by someone else. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 01:40, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks man, you see now I understand... More famous you say... hmmm... Bet you that pint I can do that before the year is out! Thank you for clearing this up for me, seriously you are much more help than everyone I have encountered. Cheers! C.J Hixon (talk) 01:45, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Since you're here, learn to edit Wikipedia. Heck there's material here enough for a dozen podcasts. This place is not gentle and isn't very friendly. Starting to edit here is like walking into a Travellers' pub in Essex wearing a city business suit. Heads turn and folk point at you. Until you show them you're Ok, that is. Then it all works pretty well. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 01:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I've parked it here: User:C.J Hixon/Liquid Inspiration Podcast for you to play with in case it gets deleted. Well it will get deleted. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 02:01, 10 March 2012 (UTC)