User talk:Hermes1416

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Proposed deletion of The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id


The article The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Does not seem to meet WP:NBOOK. Claim to notability is inclusion on a sub-sub genre best-seller chart that is updated hourly (and is unverifiable). Only coverage I can find is a few sentences in an article announcing author's candidacy for school board.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Nat Gertler (talk) 15:16, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id 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/The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id 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. Nat Gertler (talk) 16:02, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

February 2017
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Thank you. Lady of  Shalott  18:32, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Hermes1416. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article The Marvelous Paracosm of Fitz Faraday and the Shapers of the Id, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:03, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, but there is no conflict of interest. Specifically, there is no monetary or compensation gain and the article remains neutral. There is no reason to suspect anything other than the article contributes to a growing group of meaningful but small publishers and authors
 * When you posted [[File:Fitz Faraday.jpg]], you claimed both that it was the work of Arthur J. Lawler and that it was your work, which suggests a very strong conflict of interest. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Also, if you do have ties to the author and/or publisher, you should still disclose this. One reason for this is that it's difficult to remain neutral when writing about someone or something you're affiliated with and it's easy to overlook prose that could otherwise be seen as promotional. For example, the author section in the book's article did come across as promotional and the type of thing you'd see written by a PR agent. Another reason for this is that if you aren't open about your ties to the topic then it could be seen as you trying to deliberately hide these ties, which makes it harder to assume that you aren't here to promote the book and the author. The way that you answered Nat's COI post comes across like you are affiliated with the author and/or publisher, but perhaps as a friend, student, or volunteer, and it looks like you're trying to hide it. You don't have to give us your name (unless you're the author, in which case you'd have to disclose your name), but you should disclose any affiliations. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)