LidDavis

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Barbara Coll

Sorry about that I should have come here and let you know what was going on. It appears that User:PurpleRain got to the article before me. They have removed the tag and cut out the advert/how-to section. If you go to Talk:Barbara Coll s/he has explained it there. One thing that is needed is some reliable soures as to her importance, such as newspapers or relilable web sites (not blogs). Taking a look at Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Citing sources will give you some better help on what sort of things to do. Cheers and happy editing. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

The sections on "Basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)", "Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Simplified" and "Use Caution when Hiring a SEO/SEM Team" were removed because they were explanation or guide to SEO etc. They really didn't say anything about Barbara Coll. THe words in the rest of the article such as "Her vigilant observation of search engines" being changed to "Her knowledge of search engines" is because it must follow Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Don't worry about it though as it can be hard when starting out here. There are a lot of "rules" and such to try and follow and it's impossible to know them all.

I doubt that you are the "biggest dummy here" as you are trying to find the correct way to do things and ask questions. And you're right the Help system here can be very hard to navigate. I don't mind answering questions (or trying to) and I don't find any of them dumb. Remember we were all new here once. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Barbara Coll

I have to ask, are you affiliated with Barbara? I don't know her personally and have no axe to grind, but I had a lot of concerns about the article as written, and deleted all of the extraneous, or advertising type of stuff. That leaves very little. To save this article, can you find some news articles about Barbara. Blogs and forums are OK, as long as they have some sort of editorial control. An article on Threadwatch, SEW, or Cre8asite would be a fine source. Awards are OK, but they should be significant, such as Deloitte Fast 50 or Inc. 500. They awards should be noteworthy themselves. Jehochman (^Talk/_Contrib) 02:35, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lid. Sorry if I've caused you any consternation on this article. Take a look at the other pages listed in Search engine optimization consultants, such as Jill Whalen or Danny Sullivan (technologist). These show the simple recipe for creating a Wikipedia bio page that will pass the notability test.

We need to find three news articles about Barbara. They can even be forum or blog articles, as long as the site is independent of her, and has editorial supervision. Reprints of corporate press releases should be avoided. The important thing is that the subject of the article needs to have enough independent info available that we can write an article. Aaron Wall only has a page because he got sued by Traffic Power, and that generate a flurry of news coverage.

When you add facts to the article, be sure to use the references tags. I'll go there now and try to create an example you can follow. Jehochman (^Talk/_Contrib) 16:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

The Business Week link was removed because the article you linked to did not mention Coll. The New York Times link was probably removed because it required registration. That's covered under Wikipedia:External links#Sites requiring registration. Linking to a blog is OK when it's written by a "recognized authority', see Wikipedia:External links#Links normally to be avoided #11. On the other hand Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Using online and self-published sources has some other things to say about blogs. If you can find an article about her in a magazine, newspaper or book then it could be included. As to the awards, if you can show that they are not just minor ones then they could go back in. Hope this helps a bit. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Photo

Lid, did you take that photo of Barbara? It seems to be the same one that's located here: http://www.iimaonline.org/speakerprofile_archive.html Jehochman (^Talk/_Contrib) 16:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Gave it a chance, but not developing

We tried to create an article about Barbara Coll, but there just aren't enough third party articles about her. I have proposed deleting the article. Jehochman ^Talk 13:25, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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Barbara Coll image

Kelly thanks

Alas, I'm really still a baby here. I do own the copyright for this image, and was planning to release it to Wikipedia, but got a little lost along the way.

I have undone the remove, but will now go and ensure all the pertinent copyright information is included.

Thank you so much for pointing it you

LidDavis (talk) 23:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Barbara Coll

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