User talk:Michelleshwartz

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Proposed deletion of Benjamin Shwartz


The article Benjamin Shwartz has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This is a biography of a living person. Although it has references, none of them appear to be accessible, should be something on the Internet if he's notable as claimed. Tone is spammy with a number of claims that cannot be verified in the articles present form

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  16:18, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, I don't think that this article is beyond redemption, but it needs some work. The article Mei-Ann Chen could help you, you don't need that amount of detail, but it may help with layout and proper references. The tone is a bit uncritical to say the least, and I assume from your username that you have a conflict of interest. If you decide to salvage this, write it in as neutral and encyclopaedic a tone as possible. Hope this helps  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  16:27, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi from me too. I've removed the Proposed Deletion as this person is notable and I've provided several inline citations. I've also added muliple cleanup tags for this article. It needs re-writing from a neutral, non-promotional point of view. It also seems to be cribbed from various versions of his official biographies with the elements simply shifted around or reworded slightly. If you have any affiliation personal or professional with the subject please read WP:Conflict of interest for guidance when editing in these circumstances and please do not remove the maintenance tags until the current issues in the article have been rectified. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 17:07, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: I've removed most of the puffery, but the article still needs copy-editing. Voceditenore (talk) 17:15, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for email, changing your user name is a good idea, changing it to that of your company is a really bad idea, since it's against Wikipedia policy to use names of organisations, and could result in an indefinite block. I think you can just create a new account, but read the policy on user names  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  19:03, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I assume you have seen Changing username. You need to follow the instructions there, I can't do it, a bureaucrat isn't the same as as admin. I've removed the coi tag but left the others. Most of the article still needs links adding, there are no wikilinks after the first paragraph. You misunderstand the links tag. What it means is that there are no links from other articles to this page. Click on "what links here" in the sidebar. The tags don't imply deletion, just that it needs work  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:55, 8 March 2012 (UTC)