User talk:Gg31185

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Tennessee Justice Center
Hi. New articles from new editors such as yourself get extra scrutiny for violations of Wikipedia's norms. If there's a problem, they tend to get deleted quickly -- sometimes within hours. What follows is some advice on writing articles on very controversial topics:


 * Notability: The most important criterion is "Is this organization or person sufficiently notable to justify an Wikipedia article"? That's what usually kills new editors' new articles. It's important that you establish TJC's notability, with some external links to credible, neutral sources establishing TJC's notability. This needs to be done ASAP. Given TJC's coverage in every Tennessee newspaper and many more elsewhere, this should not be hard. Here are some relevant rules to skim someday:
 * Verifiability
 * Reliable sources
 * Notability
 * If you stick to media articles, that should be sufficient (and you can forget about these articles for now).


 * Vanity: New editors are often suspected of submitting "vanity" articles: see Vanity guidelines for more on this issue.


 * Neutral point of view ("NPOV"): An organization as controversial as TJC will be hard to write neutrally about, but do so anyway. Try to write an article that TJC friends and foes couldn't quibble with. You may be a TJC supporter, but when you come on Wikipedia, you're supposed to be absolutely neutral. Besides, if you write a biased article, it makes it that much more of a target for a TJC opponent to edit it to another extreme. Neutral point of view is the Wikipedia policy most relevant to this article; I would read it and take it to heart, especially the section about "Undue weight"


 * No original research: Wikipedia articles are supposed to be based totally on primary or secondary sources. See No original research. Most articles don't need line by line external support, but with such a controversial article, I suggest supporting just about every sentence with an external link. Think of this as reinforcing your writing with steel reinforcing rods -- if someone challenges a point, you can say, "Well, that's what the Tennesseean said".

I see you may be planning to write articles on TJC's leaders -- I suggest you hold off for now and work on polishing this one. You can always add the others in a few weeks.

You're off to a great start -- I'm impressed. --A. B. 22:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)