User talk:RunningStick

October 2022
Hello. Your recent edit appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 01:35, 22 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi MrOllie,
 * A stand-alone article regarding "https://structure.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/icn3d/" is forthcoming by "someone" (perhaps myself). Descriptive documentation currently exists at https://structure.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/icn3d/icn3d.html. The software author may not have time soon to create the Wikipedia Page. I am a new author here but long time financial supporter of Wikipedia and associate of the author. Does a webpage template exist where I can enter minimal starting info to get the ball rolling? RunningStick (talk) 01:59, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * As a person with a conflict of interest, neither the software author nor their associates should be writing such an article, or adding links to this software to Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 02:18, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Who writes the articles and updates links? My interests is as a novice user of the free open source software for the Biotech community. I happened to meet the author during an Antibody Engineering hackathon in August of this year where I was introduced to several useful software packages; iCn3D being one and Jupyter Notebooks being the other. Project Jupyter is already well represented on Wikipedia, iCn3D is not. RunningStick (talk) 02:32, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi MrOllie,
 * If it is appropriate, I would like to share with you a recent communication email chain I shared with the author at NCBI regarding this topic and see if that changes your level of concern. Are you able to provide an email address or should I publish that chain here in the talk pages (it might be excessively long and expose email addresses that probably would be better not published)? RunningStick (talk) 13:33, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia isn't a link directory, the external links you were trying to add do not belong regardless of what might be said in some emails. If you have general questions about Wikipedia or editing with a conflict of interest I suggest you ask at WP:TEAHOUSE. MrOllie (talk) 13:46, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Initiated WP:TREEHOUSE redirection of this thread. . . RunningStick (talk) 13:20, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

See WP:YFA for how to create a draft and then submit it to Articles for Creation (AfC) review process. Only once successful can such an article be added to a list of Wikipedia articles. As for the software creator or you as an associate can create such an article, the answer is "Yes, but." Anyone with a connection must describe that connection on their own User page. Do not publish an email chain anywhere. The would have no value. What is essential for a draft to be accepted is published content, independent of the article editors, that can be used as references. David notMD (talk) 13:43, 23 October 2022 (UTC)