User talk:Nadacevia

Your edits to Via Foundation
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Via Foundation
Hi -

I'm in the process of trying to make the Via Foundation and Via Bona Awards articles you flagged more neutral in tone. If you have any advice on how I can better accomplish this, please let me know!

(After learning how to do so!) I have listed references on the pages, but I am having a hard time finding source material in English (as there just isn't very much). This is actually one of the main reasons that I've written these articles - to provide some information in English about at least one nonprofit organization in the Czech Republic and its activities. I hope to write more entries about other Czech NGOs in the future but can anticipate that I will run into the same COI problems.

Also, I'm not sure how I might "prove" why these articles are important. For example, the Via Bona Awards do not have much source material as this is a cultural difference in the Czech Republic - Czech media outlets typically refuse to write about corporate philanthropy in any way as they see this as free advertising for the corporations.

Again, any help or advice you may offer is really appreciated. Thank you! --Nadacevia 11:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


 * You actually don't have to use English references, if you don't have any English sources - they're just preferred. You can also use translations, or machine translations, of foreign language documents if you want.  Typically, in order to show that the topic of an article is notable, you just have to find some reliable sources which talk about the subject.  The fact that people are talking about the subject in a news, business, or scholarly setting is typically enough to show that a subject is notable.  So, if you're having trouble finding sources in the Czech press, try looking through business magazines and things like that - those are also acceptable sources, and I reckon they probably won't have the same philosophy as the normal press.  Hope this helps! --Haemo 21:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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