User talk:Jconner1

Your submission at Articles for creation
 Vicki DaSilva, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Sionk (talk) 20:48, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Jconnor, thankyou for your message. I added the 'advert' tag to the Vicki DaSilva article for a couple of reasons, partly because it makes a number of unverified claims, partly because it uses non-neutral, promotional language in places, partly because of the large number of embedded links to company webpages (I've already removed many of the embedded links). There are a number of important claims ("the first artist to...", "credited with the term...", "first darkroom assistant to [a famous artist]" etc.) which need verification by an independent reliable source. The Light Painting Photography website you pointed to isn't a great source because it is just a website set up by an artist. Newspapers, magazines or books are the best sources because they have some sort of expert editorial standards. Hope that helps! DaSilva seems an interesting and successful artist so your article is a great contribution to Wikipedia, in my view! Sionk (talk) 11:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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