User talk:Damien.s

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Hi, thanks for message. Wikipedia France and Spain accepted this page&mdash;the various language Wikipedias are independent and have different rules. In general, the requirements here are much more stringent than the versions you mention. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the collective, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the collective claims or interviewing its members. You gave no references at all. You gave three external links, but two were not actually linked to sites (one was only to your own site, OK as an External link, but not a reference) and the third was to a commercial paid-membership site
 * Even that link only confirmed that you had done some shows, no indication of why they are notable. In any case, references need to be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: Gathered around a same approach, these artists share a poetic, dreamlike and magical imaginary. They have the ambition to combine artistic disciplines to convey this imaginary... The Collectif has a strong artistic identity; it enriches itself with both radical artistic choices and outside artists who offer their own creative universe, which means it involves to find a delicate balance.&mdash; and many similar, it's basically a press release
 * the article was created in a single edit and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. Copyrighted text is not allowed in English-language Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
 *  international people are looking for information in English&mdash; even if that's true, that's not a criterion, you have to follow our rules
 * Your edits and user name indicate that you have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.
 * If you are a member of the collective or work for or on behalf of the collective, that is paid advocacy, a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:     . If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.

It's not the worse I've seen, and if you want to try again, I'll post the deleted text to a user subpage for you to work on, just let me know when you answer the COI question. I suggest that you look at related articles on our site to get an idea of layout and referencing.

Jimfbleak - talk to me?  15:29, 14 January 2016 (UTC)