Balpi002

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:47, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Many Lives, Many Masters moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Many Lives, Many Masters, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. creffett (talk) 01:02, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Notes

I have notes for your draft:

• This should only have a general synopsis of a couple of paragraphs - not chapter by chapter summaries. I've summarized this for you.

• This needs sourcing to back up claims and establish notability. As far as the sourcing goes, Wikipedia cannot be used to source itself and the reception section is made up of book blubs, which cannot establish notability. Book blurbs are different than reviews, as blurbs are short 1-3 sentence statements that are solicited by the author and/or publisher to promote the book. These are always wholly positive and the people are chosen specifically in order to best promote the work. Some of the people chosen are people that the author knows IRL or are also with the publisher, as it's not uncommon for publishers to request book blurbs from people whose work they publish.

• Avoid blanket statements such as "the book was very popular among the medical community". This statement looks like it uses the book blurbs as a source, which is inherently problematic for the above reasons, however it's also a blanket statement since this implies that everyone within the medical community - or at least the majority of the community - both read the book and had a favorable opinion of it. This is something that is going to be very difficult to establish given the size of the community and the different people in it, as there will most assuredly be a sizable faction who would not like the book or agree with its messages - something that would be the case for any given medical or spiritual claim.

• On the past note, keep in mind that we can only summarize what has been explicitly stated in the source material. This means that unless someone says "X means Y", we can't include the claim in the article. Even then, when it comes to anything that could be seen as a fringe topic it's best to attribute anything that could be seen as controversial.

• Keep in mind that this book is already more or less summarized in the article for Weiss himself, so in order to show how it's independently notable outside of Weiss and would require an article that covers the book in ways that aren't already mentioned in the main article, we would need a lot of sourcing in independent and reliable sources.

I don't really see a lot of coverage out there that's specifically about the book, to be honest. It seems like most of what I do see tends to cover the book's claims and Weiss fairly generally, to the point where I'm not sure that the book is independently notable from Weiss. I think it would honestly be best to see if there is anything in the main article that needs to be added that is backed up with reliable sources.

I hope that this helps. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:56, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Many Lives, Many Masters concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Many Lives, Many Masters, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:30, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Many Lives, Many Masters

Hello, Balpi002. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Many Lives".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:48, 25 July 2020 (UTC)