User talk:Kenpercival

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ken Percival
A tag has been placed on Ken Percival requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Ken Percival
Please see Autobiography. Disembrangler (talk) 18:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Ken Percival has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usupflu0gbw). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 18:55, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Advice on "Ken Percival" - hopefully this will be more helpful than template messages.
Hello, I just deleted the article Ken Percival. Regrettably, this biography article had a few problems that need to be remedied.

Problem 1: Sources and notability. You may want to read in detail what we have to say about notability (especially the notability of biography articles) in our policies, but the basic gist is that you need to have reliable third-party sources that talk in length about this subject. In other words, something like many different newspaper articles, perhaps book reviews in mainstream newspapers, etc etc. The mere fact that the Wikipedia article subject is an author of the book isn't sufficient enough, especially when the book is essentially self-published. I know, without the publisher's help, this is a big uphill battle, but the rules are unfortunately the same for everyone and we've needed to raise the bar to a certain height. Also, facts need to be verifiable; information must ultimately come from some source that we know is reliable, and the article should state as much.

Problem 2: Conflict of interest. As the guideline says, you need to be extremely careful when writing articles about yourself or other entities you're somehow affiliated with, and it's very much discouraged from starting this kinds of articles.

Problem 3: Breadth. In my (highly subjective, yet practical and widely shared) opinion, the articles should have some sort of "gripping surface". Wikipedia is a collaborative project; people need to be able to expand the article on their own. To that end, a few listed facts, in list format, isn't much of an article to get the ball rolling. Please do try to add a few bits of "meat" in the articles right away, so people can easily get going. There is also a helpful essay on this topic.

Hope these bits help! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 19:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)