User talk:IFCosta

INVEST Financial Corporation
Hi,

First, I have some good news for you. Invest Financial Corporation was deleted through Wikipedia's proposed deletion process, which means that anyone's protest, including yours, is sufficient to get the article restored. I will restore it shortly. Having said that, the article still is in danger of being deleted. Let me explain: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a chronicle of everything that has ever existed. To show that a subject is fit for coverage in an encyclopedia, the subject must demonstrate encyclopedic notability. This means that the subject must have received significant attention in independent, reliable sources. Basically, the subject must be of interest to either the general public (shown through press attention), scholars (shown through journal articles), or industry specialists (shown through articles in trade publications.) Currently, the sources for INVEST Financial Corporation do not appear to be independent. Facebook pages, the program's own website, and twitter feeds -- these are not reliable sources in an encyclopedic sense. To maintain the article long-term, you must demonstrate that the company is encyclopedically notable. Some ideas on how to do this are listed here. (Note this page is not a formal guideline, but still gives a good sense of what a corporate article can do to escape deletion problems.) If you have further questions, feel free to ask me anytime. Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 20:18, 5 March 2014 (UTC)