User talk:LauraVuittonVittadiniWallace

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April 2016
This is your only warning; if you remove or blank page contents or templates from Wikipedia again, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laura Vuitton, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:45, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I'm IronGargoyle. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Laura Vuitton because it seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thanks. IronGargoyle (talk) 15:45, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * RickinBaltimore, IronGargoyle, the article is up at AfD. We don't have to be very strict in policing this, I don't think. Drmies (talk) 15:52, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Every time I try to add what people are asking of me, it is deleted. (Laura Vuitton assistant)
 * People aren't asking you to post links to places where the book is sold. The whole conversation is kind of moot anyway, since I've never met a Lulu book that was notable by our standards--see Notability (books). Thank you, Drmies (talk) 17:26, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Notability and self-published books
I thought I'd give you a bit more explanation as to why the page was deleted. The short answer is that it didn't meet the notability guidelines set up at WP:NBOOK because it didn't receive coverage in places that are both independent and reliable per WP:RS. Reliable sources are considered to be things like articles in newspapers like the New York Times or the Houston Chronicle. Other types of RS can be things like reviews in outlets like Publishers Weekly or Booklist - however you would not be able to use any reviews that were purchased, like the type they have at Kirkus Indie. E-commerce sites like Amazon or Barnes & Noble cannot establish notability and are actually considered to be inappropriate to add to Wikipedia since they are there to sell a product and as such would not be considered to be unbiased/neutral.

Books are not inherently notable because of their existence and it's actually fairly difficult to establish notability, as there are more books put out each year than the reliable sources can actually cover. Most self-published books have the deck stacked against them, as they rarely, rarely get any sort of acknowledgement from the mainstream sources, let alone the indie sources that Wikipedia would consider reliable. It's a shame and while it'd be nice if there was a way to include more indie and self-published books, the guidelines are just too strict for that and are unlikely to ever get more lenient. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:26, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll also be a little blunt, but honest: right now your book doesn't pass notability guidelines on Wikipedia and there's a strong chance that it never will pass those guidelines. This isn't a statement about the content - the book could be excellently written, yet still never gain the necessary coverage to pass notability guidelines. I'm friends with a few published authors that have put out some absolutely amazing works that have never gained attention from reliable sources. It stinks and I wish it was otherwise, but it just hasn't happened to them and sometimes coverage is just as much about luck as it is about the quality of the work in question. Now a better option I can suggest is to see if you can find some book related Wikias out there and look into adding your information there. You might even want to look into starting a Wikia of your own. You could also try soliciting reviews and coverage from various book blogs. This is no guarantee that they'd actually cover you and I also have to be clear that blog sources aren't considered to be usable as reliable sources except in very, very rare circumstances (like if it was a blog written by Harvard College), but getting this type of coverage could be helpful to you in general.
 * Now this next piece of advice you can ignore if you want to, but I feel like I should pass this along anyway: I looked at the price of your book and it's very, very expensive at $30. This will likely be one of your biggest barriers when it comes to getting readers. Most readers aren't going to spend $30 on an author they're unfamiliar with, especially a self-published one. It'd really be better if you were to lower your prices. This might require that you switch formats, like go from hardback to paperback. You should also make your book available in e-book format. I would recommend setting the e-book price low, around $3-5, and the paperback at $10-15. You won't make a ton of money from that, but you'd likely get more books in more hands than you otherwise would with a $30 hardback. You really don't want to start off with your first book at a high price unless there's some sort of guarantee that it'd sell enough copies to make it worthwhile. Even most mainstream publishers don't start new authors of with hardbacks straight off the back unless they have an excellent marketing campaign and they know that they'll sell a lot of copies. This is all coming from me as someone who reads indie and self-published books, knows authors who publish indie and self-published, and also as someone who was semi-active in the book blogging world for a while. One of the biggest rules was that you don't overprice your stuff, especially if you're an unknown author. I've seen multiple readers state that they don't want to pay more than $3-5 for an e-book by an unknown, self-published author. Some of them refuse to buy a print copy from someone unless they know that they're going to like the work. On that note, I also highly recommend enabling previews of your book on the e-commerce sites. You may have to publish through that site's self-publishing arm, but as a self-published author you have the freedom to publish through as many places as you want - you're not locked down to Lulu. You can see more information on book pricing here and here. The number one thing is that if you're not getting a lot of sales right now, it might be worth experimenting with lowering the book price and making more formats available. You can leave the price high and only sell in hardback, but if you're not selling a lot or any copies, this may be counterproductive to making a profit and getting books in hands.
 * Like I said above, you can ignore that last paragraph, but I really suggest looking into lowering the price. At the very least I'd recommend setting up an e-book at that price if you aren't comfortable with moving to paperback. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:59, 23 April 2016 (UTC)