User talk:Mrolandb

Your submission at Articles for creation
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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Alpha_Quadrant    (talk)  20:17, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. However, the reviewer felt that a few things need to be fixed before it is accepted. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text to the top of the article.)
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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:32, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Your inquiry regarding Articles for creation
Regarding your inquiry, I can't say much more than to ask you to review Wikipedia's notability requirements. As the notability article states, "[i]f only a few sentences could be written and supported by sources about the subject, that subject does not qualify for a separate page, but should instead be merged into an article about a larger article or relevant list."

While I respect that IMS is a private company "that doesn't generally seek publicity respective with its corporate size," I can say with certainty that IMS wouldn't be the first company to run into notability issues on Wikipedia. The idea of notability that Wikipedia founders puts forward isn't always friendly to businesses and other entities, but that's because many businesses and companies think that Wikipedia is a promotional medium. It is not meant to be that. As the previous quote states, other people need to be writing unincentivized content about IMS for it to become notable in Wikipedia's eyes. Like it or not, that typically means public exposure and interaction with communities in such a way that others are inspired to write about it. Yes, I understand the difficulties this causes for some entities, and I'm somewhat sympathetic. Your company and many like it may do fantastic things for other people, but if people aren't sharing those stories or interactions (and thus becoming secondary sources), all Wikipedia authors have are self-proclaimed statements that may not be biased but can't be verified.

You asked me for advice. All I can say is that if enough people think what IMS is doing is important, hopefully more people will write about it. Until then, there's no magic formula that will get an IMS page to stick on Wikipedia.

Lostraven (talk) 21:35, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

To answer your question about placing IMS in the list of vendors on the laboratory information management system article, if you click the "Edit" link for that section, you'll notice a message that indicated "ONLY links to a relevant Wikipedia page" should be entered. There has been some talk of expanding that vendor list to its own separate wiki page, but even then only links to existing vendor pages would be used. Take for example the "List of ERP software packages" page. All the entries on that page are limited to existing pages.

As an aside, also consider writing on user's talk pages. Talk pages are a useful addition to Wikipedia and make communication much easier and transparent versus e-mailing a Wikipedia user.

Lostraven (talk) 23:19, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved.
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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! B  music  ian  06:52, 15 February 2012 (UTC)