User talk:Rtanniru

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Hello, Rtanniru, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 10:36, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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Grafting number
I have read what you wrote at Talk:Grafting number and will reply here with advice, but it may be a day or so before I have time. Start by reading the links in the Welcome message above, which will tell you about Wikipedia. Also, read WP:No original research and WP:Verifiability. which are important content policies. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:36, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Advice
I will copy your message below here, to give context for anyone else who gets involved:


 * Hello, my name is Robert Tanniru, and I have been researching grafting numbers (http://roberttanniru.weebly.com/grafting-numbers.html) on and off for the past year. I wrote a paper on the topic this past summer (2013) and it has recently been published in JCMCC (http://www.combinatorialmath.ca/jcmcc/).  I would like to reestablish the Grafting Number Wikipedia page and add more details to it as shown in my first link above.  I'm not very skilled at creating Wiki pages however and would appreciate any help.


 * Thanks,
 * Rtanniru (talk) 10:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Rob

I advise you to start on an article by making a draft in your "user space". Read WP:Your first article and then click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title: that will make a draft page for you to work in, with links to helpful advice. There will also be a "submit the page" button, but since this has been deleted after WP:Articles for deletion/Grafting number you would need to show it to user, the administrator who closed that discussion, to get his agreement that your version has overcome the reasons for deletion.

The main problem I see is establishing WP:Notability, Wikipedia's inclusion criterion, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See also WP:Notability (summary). You will see that this was the issue raised at the AfD. I looked at the deleted article, and the only reference was the video at http://www.numberphile.com/videos/98grafting.html.

Wikipedia's idea of a reliable source is one that has some degree of editorial control - places where anyone can write anything do not count. Once your article has been published in the JCMCC that will be one useful source, but if that is all (apart from the Numberphile video) I am afraid it will not be enough; this links in with the part of the WP:No original research policy which says: "'If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to announce such a discovery.'"

By all means make a userspace draft and see how it goes, but I am afraid acceptance may have to wait till there is evidence of other people starting to write about grafting numbers.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:57, 30 November 2013 (UTC)