User talk:Sarahbear001

Speedy deletion nomination of Simon Hedley
Hello Sarahbear001,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Simon Hedley for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. WMartin74 (talk) 14:57, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Deletion of Simon Hedley
Hello, I did note your comment at the talk page of this article. Unfortunately, it did need to be deleted, as it was promotional. We do not allow an article to promote anyone or anything, but rather to be strictly neutral. There were some significant problems at this one, such as the use of TM (we don't do trademark symbols), reference as "Simon" rather than "Hedley" (to maintain a formal tone, we use the first and last name of an individual on first reference, the last only thereafter), and essentially a long list of supposed accomplishments. It also used promotional language, like "...has been the inspiration and private counsel to many of the greatest personal and business development experts of the last two decades" (greatest according to whom?), "He is known as The Ultimate Connector™ and The Strategic Alchemist™." (Known as such by whom? According to whom?), "Simon was a visionary on the potential of technology to music, entertainment and media." (pure puffery), "Given the nature of his work much of his involvement remains confidential." (then we can't write about it, we need published sources, we don't just accept "There's something confidential there"). Articles must be written strictly from reliable published sources that are independent of the subject, and they must be strictly neutral in both tone and content. No promotion, no puffery, no "talking up", and no CVs&mdash;articles should be a biography, not a CV. If solidly reliable sources have written a good deal about this individual, it's entirely possible that we could support a biography of his. I would advise that you start any such article as a draft, since requirements are a bit looser for draft articles than those directly in the encyclopedia, but even drafts can't be promotional like that one was. To avoid any issues, stick at least initially just to direct facts that come out of the references. And of course, if a substantial amount of reliable and independent reference material doesn't exist about the individual, we'd have nothing to write an article from, so we'd be unable to accept one. That'll probably leave you a good bit to digest, so do feel free to ping me if you've got any questions. Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:04, 14 September 2016 (UTC)