User talk:CostelloDc

EURORDIS
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Help with EURORDIS
Hello CostelloDc,

I am the Wikipedia editor who recently wrote the articles on National Organization for Rare Disorders and Rare Disease Day; I had also been planning on working on a Eurordis article when I found some free time, and was pleasantly surprised to see you aleady working on it! I just wanted you to know, I will be available to help you out with article development, and if you ever have questions you can leave me a message at my talk page. You can also take the Wikipedia tutorial to learn more about how to edit to Wikipedia standards.

Wikipedia has a very complicated set of notability guidelines and guidelines about conflict of interest, and seeing articles about organizations written by people from within the organization often raises a red flag for other Wikipedia editors. So, I think it will be good for the article if I edit it some (I just might not be able to for a few days, as I have a very busy week coming up in real-life); EURORDIS is unquestionably a notable organization and deserves an article, but if you are the only person working on the article some people might get suspicious (even though your intentions are good and you're not violating any rules).

You can take a look at the National Organization for Rare Disorders article to see how I approached that topic and maybe get some ideas for how to organize this article. If you find any good sources online (such as independent news coverage about EURORDIS and things it has done), feel free to post the links and information at Talk:EURORDIS or at my own talk page, so that other editors and I can see them and work on integrating them into the article.

Best, r ʨ  ana ɢ  talk/contribs 13:17, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

CSD Spam
A tag has been placed on EURORDIS, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of EURORDIS and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:20, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I would recommend that you read this. Single Purpose Accounts are not acceptable, as are accounts that come here solely to edit to promote a company. As you have admitted, you are doing just that. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:26, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * What you said - "the potential to guide Rare Disease patients to the right kind of information to get started" - This is a problem. Wikipedia is not about guiding patients anywhere. We are not a medical service. We do not promote medical services. This is part of what Wikipedia is not. We are an encyclopedia of notable groups and we report on notability. Ottava Rima (talk) 17:00, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

RDR sources
Thanks for all the links to sources. The e-patients one may not meet Wikipedia's reliable sources standards...it might, but we'd have to find an impartial way to gauge how important and influential that blog is, and right now that's a can of worms that I don't want to open with all this other stuff going on. So I probably won't add it just yet, since people might think I'm trying to bombard the article with anything I can find...once things have quieted down a bit I might be able to evaluate it better. The National Library of Medicine source, though, is definitely helpful; it's published by an organization that has an extensive Wikipedia article, so there's no arguing there, it's definitely a notable source. Best, r ʨ  ana ɢ  talk/contribs 22:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Userfying EURORDIS
Hey, I was just thinking, I might not have time to work on the EURORDIS article as soon as I expected, and I'm worried about leaving it sitting where it is too long in its state. To avoid getting criticized by people for the time being, the best thing for us to do might be to temporarily userfy it (which means to move the article out of Wikipedia main article space and put it in a subpage of your own user profile, where we can work on gradually building it until it's ready to go back into article space). If this is ok with you, the easiest way to do it is to copy and paste the content of the article into something like User:CostelloDc/EURORDIS (click that red link to create the page), and then blank the text on the actual EURORDIS article and replace it with the text, which will signal an administrator to delete the page temporarily; once we have built up the article inside your user space, we can move it back to article space when it's ready.

Does this sound all right? r ʨ  ana ɢ  talk/contribs 00:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Oops! Thanks for catching that.  In the future, when you see errors you are also welcome to "boldly" correct them (one of Wikipedia's official policies is WP:Be bold), too!
 * By the way, thanks for userfying EURORDIS for now. I have no doubt that it'll be a fine article with no issues once we have some time to prepare it, but for now I just wanted to avoid having people mess around with it before we've had time to get ready.
 * And also, I'm very impressed by the outpouring of people digging up new sources at the AfD discussion of Rare Disease Day! r ʨ  ana ɢ  talk/contribs 15:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Warning
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Camw (talk) 23:35, 18 November 2009 (UTC)