User talk:Mlddmc/sandbox

My name is Mary Louise Davie and I own the materials contested. I give permission for its use here on Wikipedia and only here.

Mary Louise Davie

Hello,. Unfortunately, there are some problems with what you have written above.


 * 1) Wikipedia is not a blog, forum or social media site; it is a publication. Copyright permission to include pre-published work is a legal process, and can't be done through an anonymous username. There is a formal process for donating previously published text to Wikipedia.  You can read about it at: Donating copyrighted materials.  However, all text in Wikipedia is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that anyone (not just Wikipedia) can use, adapt, or even sell the text, and you may not want that.
 * 2) Wikipedia is not a web host or an advertising venue; it is an encyclopedia. The text you included is unsuitable and would have to be totally rewritten in a neutral, factual style, instead of as a fan page to promote the author and her books. Encyclopedia articles don't contain opinions, conclusions, predictions, feelings or aspirations.  It would be simpler for an editor to start fresh and write text specifically for Wikipedia.  It's difficult for a person to write neutrally about herself, and not recommended.
 * 3) Wikipedia only has articles about authors who are already well known. An encyclopedia article about an author is a summary of what has been written about her in book reviews, magazine articles and news reports written by professional journalists and critics. Since these people write in publications which have editors and fact-checkers, this gives some assurance that the information is not only true, but of sufficient significance to be included in the encyclopedia.  The sources of information have to be both reliable and independent, so material written in forums, blogs, book sales sites, personal websites, letters to the editor, social media, etc., are not good references.  If an author hasn't yet been written about in depth in several edited publications, then it is too soon for an article about that person at all.

I hope this helps you to understand why your page has been deleted. If you do find a number of in-depth book reviews, magazine write-ups or news reports, please feel free to write some new, neutral text and include the references you found. Here are several articles about authors as examples: Andrew Lam (author), Daniel Kraus (author), Kate Ellis (author), Hans Halberstadt (author), Ashley Little, Shelly Sanders. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 12:08, 10 September 2015 (UTC)