User talk:EHowardHill

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Nomination of MSPX (Book Series) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article MSPX (Book Series) 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/MSPX (Book Series) 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 high-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 notice from the top of the article. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  15:05, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Welcome and a bit of an explanation
Hi! I noticed that you added a page about your book series. Unfortunately it just doesn't seem to pass notability guidelines per WP:NBOOK and I wanted to give a bit of an explanation about why. Don't take this personally, as it's actually fairly hard for books to pass notability guidelines as a whole and it's pretty common for books by even well known authors to fail notability guidelines. For example, there are books that have hit the New York Times's Bestseller List yet still fail guidelines because they didn't get enough overall coverage to show notability.

In order to show notability you would have to show where your book has gained coverage in independent and reliable secondary sources, like book reviews or articles in newspapers. It's very, very difficult for independent and/or self-published books to gain this necessary coverage, as there are always more authors that need coverage than places that would be considered a reliable secondary source on Wikipedia. You can't use blog reviews or the book's listings on Amazon or other e-commerce sites to show notability, as most blog sources are considered to be self-published sources that don't have the editorial oversight Wikipedia requires and e-commerce sites are there to sell you something, so they aren't considered reliable.

Don't let this discourage you - it can take a long while to gain the necessary coverage. Right now I'd recommend that you continue writing and honing your craft. You'll get there eventually - it's impressive that someone as young as you are (at least per the author image on Amazon) has written so much, so don't let this set you back any. When you do become a world famous author you can look back on this and laugh - and we can add all of this to your eventual Wikipedia entry then. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  19:27, 15 April 2017 (UTC)