User talk:RaylynJamesRae

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The Rankin article
Hello, thanks for joining Wikipedia! I notice that all your edits are on the topics of The Rankin Gardens & Atrium, and I wonder if you have some connection, or "conflict of interest" with them, such as that you are an employee or contractor or being paid for editing Wikipedia to market this company.

This isn't necessarily a problem, but if this is so, you must immediately file a disclosure statement explaining any conflict of interest to ensure transparency, and ensure that all your edits are factual and cannot be considered in any way promotional, and backed up by citations demonstrating them to be true. That's a link on how to do it and here's an example of what a disclosure looks like - but let me know if you have any kind of questions about this, privately by email is fine if you’re having problems. An automated message explaining this is added below. Blythwood (talk) 04:28, 28 August 2016 (UTC) Hello, RaylynJamesRae. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


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I had to write this article for a college project. We were told to write something we are an expert on. I do work at The Rankin, it's the only thing I am an "expert" on. But I think if I put in my project that my page was deleted before I had a chance to edit it (part of the project) my teacher will be okay with it.

Thanks


 * Hi Raylyn, thanks for letting me know about this. As I said below, I'm afraid that this article wasn't really right for Wikipedia. One of Wikipedia's policies, called WP:BRANCH, is to avoid having lots of tiny little articles on sub-topics, like a centre that's part of a university campus, unless they're very well-known in their own right and discussed in many reliable sources like books and news articles, so I'm sorry about this. It would I'm sure be fine if you added mention of this venue into the university article as a paragraph or two. To explain, what happened was that I "proposed" (suggested) that the article wasn't right for Wikipedia, but it looks like someone else agreed with me and decided to remove it immediately. To be honest though, it sounds like your teacher doesn't know much about Wikipedia and isn't giving you a lot of support. As any experienced editor will tell you, creating new articles is pretty much the least important thing you can do on Wikipedia: what we have is a lot of pre-existing articles that need extra help and love. Perhaps you would be interested in adding more information (and, most crucially, citations - every fact added to Wikipedia must be backed up to a source that can be verified) to a pre-existing article on a topic you know a bit about, such as on your home town or university. Or if you would like to write an article, it's best to run it through the articles for creation project - they can help you decide if something is a good topic for an article and help you make it good. Anyway, sorry this hasn't worked out quite right and free to contact me on my "talk page" if you ever need help with anything and want to ask questions. Blythwood (talk) 18:35, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Rankin Gardens & Atrium


The article The Rankin Gardens & Atrium has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Entry is highly promotional; I can't find reliable sources such as books and news articles to convert this into a factual article. Seems to fail WP:BRANCH as a non-notable subsection of the Columbus State University estate.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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. Blythwood (talk) 04:38, 28 August 2016 (UTC)