User talk:Leanamcguire

Speedy deletion nomination of Leana Delle
Hello Leanamcguire,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Leana Delle for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Trivialist (talk) 18:42, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Reasons
One reason was the promotional way the article was worded. Advertising and promotion are not allowed on Wikipedia. I realise that as a self-published author you have to do your own publicity, but it's something we can't help you with here. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and notability must be shown for the subjects of articles. In this case, that would be WP:NBOOK, with WP:RS (about reliable independent sources) being essential reading too. We get a lot of self-published authors coming on here, but I'm afraid that it's rare that any can show real notability. Not everything published by regular mainstream publishers gets on here, either - we had some trouble with the marketing department of an otherwise very respectable publisher not long back. But, the authors published by those companies stand a better chance of getting the reviews that we need to see, unlike the self-published (Amazon and local newspaper reviews don't count here...). The self-publishing outfits make some play about you getting higher margins on your sales. They don't tell you that the lower margins given by the regular publishers take into account a lot of publicity work in getting books known and seen on shelves, and editing and proofing too. Anyway, I do wish you luck, and would advise you to keep trying to get with a regular publisher. It's hard work, but not as hard as trying to sell your book yourself. Keep on writing, and keep hitting the publishers. (Try and find the elusive back door...) Peridon (talk) 19:25, 22 June 2014 (UTC)