User talk:Cre8iv80studio

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February 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mosaic festival has been reverted. Your edit here to Mosaic festival was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/Mosaic.Mississauga, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mississauga-Celebration-Square/137691062956698, https://www.facebook.com/ANOKHIMedia) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:57, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Mosaic Festival
Most importantly, the article did not cite any reliable sources to demonstrate that the festival actually gets past our notability rules for organizations or companies. A Wikipedia article is not something that any organization, festival, event, etc., is automatically entitled to have just because it exists; the article must be referenced to media sources (newspaper or magazine coverage, TV coverage, etc.) which demonstrate that it is notable enough to be of interest to an international readership. Posts to the festival's own Facebook page (the only "sources" that were present at all) do not demonstrate notability, because they're promotional material published by the festival's own organizing committee; notability is conferred by independent media sources choosing to devote time and space to covering the festival.

And secondly, both because the article was originally created by an editor whose username closely resembled the real name of a person listed in the text of the article as the event's founder and because you referred it as your article in your post to my talk page, I need to ask you to familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest policy as well — namely, if you have direct personal involvement with the organization the article is about, then you should really avoid being the creator of an article about it. You would be allowed to make strictly factual edits to the article if it contained mistakes, but you would not have the right to claim ownership of the article, to insert claims that cannot be properly verified in independent media sources, or to override our other content policies. COI doesn't mean you can't contribute at all, but you do need to be very careful not to cross the line that distinguishes a neutral article about the festival from a promotional advertisement for the festival.

I'd be happy to restore the article to your personal sandbox space — it'll be at User:Cre8iv80studio/Mosaic Festival — but it can't be restored to articlespace until it's properly compliant with our rules about reliable sourcing and notability and neutrality. Bearcat (talk) 03:06, 12 February 2014 (UTC)