User talk:Yacout

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I saw your note regarding Kennet Partners. Just so you are aware, Wikipedia does not look highly on individuals using the project to "promote" their company (WP:COI). That being said I think you did a pretty good job of writing up an article that is fairly neutral in its point of view. I am familiar with Kennet and think that you should be able to demonstrate Notability. I will make some edits to your article. Two things that you can do to help:


 * Instead of linking website addresses for Kennet's investments (this will not be permissible) it is preferable that you use wikilinks to other articles. If most of these are not companies with articles on Wikipedia, a simple text list might even be preferable.  But typically long lists of websites is frowned on.


 * Take out unnecessary "references". You have done a good job on references but you may have included a number of references that only really mention kennet in passing.  You should think about just showing those references that are relevant.

After you have done that I would say you should be in a good position to create the article.

|► ϋrban яenewaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 18:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Private Equity Task Force
If you are interested in joining, you can place this userbox on your user page  

and there are a number of tasks laid out on the Private Equity Task Force page that you can start working on or suggest additional tasks to pursue.

Stub articles
Good start on the venture lending article. It is good to see that you are working through your drafts before posting them as an article. Some quick suggestions:


 * I wouldn't use your userpage as a sandbox. You might want to just reuse the Sandbox page you created for the Kennet Partners article.  (In any event you should probably blank your Sandbox when you are done with the article so it doesn't get picked up by Google, Yahoo! etc.


 * Some users prefer to start a new sandbox and then move that page to the article location -- this will preserve your edit history. I am not partial to this as I am generally willing to make many more edits in a sandbox than in a real article


 * Although it is a good idea to work in a sandbox first, you should not be too hesitant to start an article as a stub. What I do in many cases is once I have a good start is to put it up and link it into the system sooner rather than later.  This allows other editors to see and add information / feedback earlier.  You can use one of the tags below

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|► ϋrban яenewaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 13:27, 17 August 2008 (UTC)