User talk:Kev riker

Welcome!

Hello, Kev riker, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as CHOU!, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Paste Let’s have a chat. 17:29, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of CHOU!


A tag has been placed on CHOU!, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Paste Let’s have a chat. 17:29, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

How can I keep my page from being deleted?
 * With that article, sorry, you can't; it was a blatant advertisement, written in the first person ("We sell products... Our designs...), full of promotional language "Wearing our fun apparel crafts an experience which leads to love for their clothing..." and generally the sort of thing you might put on your own website, not in an encyclopedia. Anything like that is speedily deleted at sight: Wikipedia is not for advertising or promotion of any kind.


 * For more information, read the FAQ/Organizations and the guide to writing WP:Your first article; and if you have any connection with the business read our policy on WP:Conflict of Interest. JohnCD (talk) 19:53, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Notability and Userspace drafts
Two important principles are WP:Verifiability, which includes: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth&mdash;whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true", and WP:Notability, which is the criterion for choosing what subjects are suitable for articles.

Yes, lack of independent references would be a problem, because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business listing directory and does not expect to have an article about every company (though Wikicompany does). Articles have to be of enough general interest for an encyclopedia article: the Wikipedia term for that is Notability, which is not a matter of opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The point is that we don't decide what is important or significant; we simply ask, have other people, independent of the subject, thought it significant enough to write about? More detail in Notability (organizations and companies).

A good way to check whether a subject is notable is to follow the advice in User:Uncle G/On notability: "When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit.  If you don't have such sources, don't write." The same idea is explained at WP:Amnesia test. If an article can be written on that basis, the subject's own website can be used as verification for more information; but if it cannot, the subject is probably not notable enough for Wikipedia.

You asked how to check an article out before posting it. The best way is to make a draft in your user space - see Help:Userspace draft for how - and then post a request at WP:Requests for feedback. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)