Lauragorny

hello, I would like to publish the article in my sandbox. Would it please be possible for you to help me? Many thanks, laura

• Hello Laura. I don't have time to help now, but I will try to remember to get back to you tomorrow, if nobody else has helped you by then. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:19, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
• Laura, I have changed this to a general help request, as you won't need an admin for this task. Have you visited the articles for creation page? One way to submit your article is to add {{subst:afc submission/submit}} to the top of your sandbox and someone will review it for you. If everything checks out, your article will be created. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

• I have had a quick look at your draft article. It seems pretty well written. However, I will mention a few aspects of the draft where I think there is room for improvement.

1. Your references could do with improving. For example, a reference which just says "Setsquared" means nothing to me: what is this "Setsquared", and where can I find it? The purpose of a reference is to tell us where the information you give can be verified, and it should give us enough information that in principle anyone reading the article could go and check the information for themself. A fairly minimal reference would be something like <ref>The book about Little My (Tove Janssen, 1952)</ref>. Better still would be <ref>html:www.littlemy/moomins.com</ref>, because an online reference is much easier for other users to check.
2. Some aspects of your writing look promotional. For example, you say "As thought leaders and entrepreneurs within the energy sector..." An article which seems to be written for the purpose of promoting its subject is likely to be speedily deleted.
3. Have you checked whether the subject satisfies Wikipedia's notability guidelines? If it doesn't, then you would be better off not spending any more time on it, as it will probably be deleted anyway. That may seem a brutal thing to say after you have evidently already put some time and effort into writing the draft article, but I say it in the hope of saving you from possibly going through a frustrating and time wasting process that I have many times seen new contributors go through. Time and again over the years I have seen someone come to Wikipedia, write an article, see it deleted or proposed for deletion, and then put in large amounts of time and effort desperately working away at writing and rewriting the article in an attempt to save it, when anyone acquainted with Wikipedia's notability standards would have known the article was doomed to extinction from the start. Time and again when an article has been deleted because its subject is not considered notable, I see its author asking "what can I do to the article to make it notable?" That, however, is the wrong question: notability is a property of a subject, not of an article about that subject. The thing to do is first to consider the question "Is the subject of the article notable?" and only if and when you have decided that the answer is "yes", go on to the question "how can I show in the article that the subject of the article is notable?" I don't know whether you already know about the notability guidelines or not, but in case you don't, I will give you a few links to the most relevant ones. Firstly, you may like to have a look at the general notability guideline, and Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) is relevant to your subject. You may also find Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations helpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:59, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mr Watson, I really appreciate your time and effort in getting back to me. Yes, I see now that some bits of the article could come across as promotional. I have read the info. on notability & organisations (thanks for your links) and yes, I see I need to wait until Green Running is both notable and has veritible sources before publishing. thanks again and have a nice day! laura