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Gaby Layoun and the Garden of Eden
editHello Lucncanada! I am not sure what you are doing with the Gaby Layoun page. It is all very interesting but possibly in breach of some Wikipedia rules. I suggest you read up on them and revise it slightly. Especially the last sentence about the Lebanese people mobilising for his fall. What's that all about? Sounds fun if he's destroying Phonecian ports. He's also destroying the Garden of Eden in the Aaiha plain, which I have fully informed his chief archaeologist Assad Seif (and wrote his bio) and they continue to do nothing about and allow it to be turned into condos for Indian tycoons and such. I like the association for protection of Lebanese heritage too and must join this or participate somehow. Regards, Paul Bedson ❉talk❉ 00:24, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Paul for the edits and the posting. I am not a wiki expert but did send you a message through linked in to communicate directly. However, I do not mind continuing through wiki talks, hoping it works. Cheers
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Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage
editHi, so many problems, it's hard to know where to start
- The page was substantially copied from here. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly that the text is public domain. I can see no such assertion. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
- It did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. The organisation is not an independent source, it needs coverage in, eg, newspapers, books etc. There is in any case no indication why it is notable. Its address is a PO Box, its outlet is a Facebook group, and no indication of how its Facebook membership translates into activity
- It was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: gained a very rapid support from the Lebanese population... senseless ‘Development’... Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a soapbox. Your content consisted of a non-neutral description of the organisation, and its aims (Our work doesn't even suggest neutrality).
- I had a special request from the APLH team to develop their wiki... You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. Thank you for declaring your interest. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.
For the reasons above, I am not prepared to restore the APLH article, on the basis of copyright infringement, lack of provable notability and promotional content. I appreciate you are acting in good faith, but you either need to find another site or write an encyclopaedia article if you can find proper sources to show notability Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:07, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage.gif
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The article Ralph Dfouni has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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Ralph Dfouni
editWell, for the record, that's not exactly how Wikipedia works. Wikipedia's role isn't to give "just due" to people just because they're "a talented artist who works closely and contribute positively to the artistic scene in Montreal" — our role begins and ends at maintaining articles which are properly compliant with our inclusion and content rules. We don't owe anybody an article just because they exist, if that article is not actually properly referenced to reliable sources. Collaboration is important here, yes, but an article which doesn't properly follow our content rules can be deleted at any time and is not automatically entitled to be kept forever just because it might eventually get improved. That's especially true for a biography of a living person, because Wikipedia's visibility and ease of editing can actually cause harm to our article subjects if we're not strict about the rules — a person can actually be worse off with a Wikipedia article that isn't properly compliant with the rules than they are with no article at all.
The main problem with your first version of the article is that it was not a properly written encyclopedia article, but rather a marketing profile that looked more like the kind of thing he might post on his own website or on LinkedIn. For example, it made a comparative assertion that he's "one of the most awarded Canadian creative directors", without properly sourcing any actual proof of how much more or less awarded he is than others in the field. Saying he's won awards is one thing; saying he's won more awards than other people is quite another. And nothing else in the introduction demonstrated much more than "this person exists". Then from there it went straight into a long résumé/curriculum vitae-style listing of the awards that he's won or been nominated for — most of which weren't referenced at all, and the few that were referenced were cited exclusively to primary sources like the webpages of the organizations that granted the awards. The article cited no sources that actually pass our rules for reliable sourcing that can properly demonstrate notability.
If you don't understand the difference between a keepable encyclopedia article and what you wrote, you can try perusing some of our better articles about people at Category:GA-Class biography articles, Category:A-Class biography articles or Category:FA-Class biography articles to get an idea of what a good article should look like. That doesn't mean that you have to be able to write an article in that quality class right off the bat — most articles on Wikipedia got to that level over time, through collaborative editing and improvement, rather than starting off already there — but it does represent the type of format you should follow. And the article needs to cite reliable sources, such as coverage in media organizations (newspapers, magazines, radio or television coverage, books, and on and so forth) — the types of primary sources you were citing may be acceptable for some additional confirmation of facts after enough reliable source coverage has been added to properly demonstrate that he's gotten past WP:CREATIVE, but they're not a valid demonstration of notability if they're the only sources in an article.
And finally, while I can't prove anything outright, given the nature of the article as you wrote it and the way you phrased yourself on my talk page (particularly the idea that he was entitled to have his work promoted on Wikipedia), I have a nagging suspicion that you have a personal affiliation of some kind with Ralph Dfouni — maybe he's a friend or relative of yours, maybe you've worked with him, maybe you are him, I don't know. So I need to advise you to familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest rules as well — if you do know him that doesn't mean you're not allowed to edit an article about him at all, but it does mean you need to be extra careful not to let your personal knowledge interfere with the need to respect and follow our rules.
I'd be happy to restore the page to your own sandbox — it'll be at User:Iucncanada/Ralph Dfouni — but you need to follow our inclusion and sourcing rules before it can be put back into articlespace. Nobody is entitled to keep a Wikipedia article regardless of the quality of what's been written — even our article on Barack Obama could be deleted and restarted from scratch if it wasn't properly following our inclusion rules — but you're always welcome to try again if you can write a new version of the article that is compliant with our rules. Bearcat (talk) 18:22, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Better source request for File:Ccman.png
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You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the image because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact Web page where you found the image, rather than only giving the source domain, search engine, pinboard, aggregator, or the URL of the image file itself. Please update the image description with a URL that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.
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- Also based on your Username, are you the copyright holder for this? If so I would strongly suggest you clarify this on the image description page.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:38, 13 September 2018 (UTC)