User talk:Mortfertel

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. Friday (talk) 14:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Mort Fertel
A tag has been placed on Mort Fertel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant 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 our the guidelines on spam as well as the Business' FAQ for more information.

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Mort Fertel
Re your message on my talk page. First I assume you are Mr Fertel from your username. Second, even though you may not have intended it, the article read like a resumé, curriculum vitae, vanity piece, etc and that is why I nominated it for deletion, on the basis that it was promotional (it was actually deleted by an admin). Several points -- because of your apparent conflict of interest you should avoid writing articles about yourself. Articles with inherent COI receive even more scrutiny than other articles. You should familiarise yourself with WP:BIO, WP:BLP, WP:N, WP:V, WP:RS and WP:SPAM - these are the relevant policies and guidelines for the purposes of this discussion. As for images, please see WP:IMAGE. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 18:21, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Re your follow up message. You should consider changing your user name as the existing one could lead to confusion (well it confused me anyway!). As I explained above, even though you are not intending to write a resume or an advertisement, the article certainly read like it. Each article on WP is judged on its own merits so the fact that other stuff exists is not relevant. As it happens, I think there are problems with the John Gottman article too. I suggest you create the article first as a subpage of your user page -- I have created a subpage for you here: User:Mortfertel/Mort Fertel and added a sandbox template to it so other users know you are using it to work on an article. Edit that subpage to create your article and when you think it's ready, ask a few other editors to take a look at it for you and make suggestions. Assuming all is OK, it can then be moved to the mainspace. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 19:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Flagging Mort Fertel for further review
Hello, … I recently encountered the article about Mort Fertel and in my opinion, it either lacks sufficient Attribution that it satisfies the Notability criteria for, or it may violate the Conflict of interest guideline, or perhaps it violates a copyright.

I am considering tagging  for deletion according to the Deletion policy … I do not have time to examine the article in depth at the moment, and it may improve over time, in which case this warning was premature.

I have created this initial entry on your Talk page because you are either the original author of the article, or else a recent contributor to it; I will leave more detailed information regarding my specific concerns about the article on its Discussion page … please respond either there or on this Talk page, instead of on my Talk page, in order to avoid fragmenting the conversation.

Be sure to read Ownership of articles, and remember that Some Other Editors (including at least one administrator) may not share your opinion about the notability of the article's subject.

I do not mean to imply that your contribution is unappreciated … perhaps you should read Your first article … and remember, there was a time when I knew less about how Wikipedia works than you know right now

Happy Editing! &mdash;  01:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mort Fertel
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Mort Fertel, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? 151.200.237.53 (talk) 19:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)