Stacylstein

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Bookbinding, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:

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Hello, Stacylstein. You have new messages at Marc Kupper's talk page.
Message added 23:38, 29 June 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Marc Kupper|talk 23:38, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestions for article

Hello, I saw your question about the Coverbind article you wanted to write. I'd be glad to give you a little help getting started. I'm not a long term editor, but I do know the general policies for article creation and I've created a few, so I can help you get started. Here's my suggestions for getting started:

1. Start a draft at User:Stacylstein/project (Just click on the link to create the page.) Starting a rough draft in your user space gives you time to fine tune it away from the pressure of article space, and once it's presentable it can be moved to article space. Just be sure to put a note at the top of the page saying it's a rough draft, not an article.
2. If you are connected with the subject of the article it's much much better to state so upfront, maybe a note on your user page.
3. If you are connected with the subject of the article it's best not to write the whole thing yourself, because no matter how hard you try it's almost impossible to write a completely neutral article in that situation. I'd reccommend looking for a sponsor. That means looking for a neutral person to edit the article. For example you might look to see who had written articles in the same field and ask those editors if they would take a look at your draft.
4. Sources are a big deal here. What you want is stuff like newspaper or magazine coverage. Books are good too. You want independent commentary that was not written by the company itself. Websites can also be used if it looks like they have some sort of fact checking (for example if they have editor's like a magazine does). You need sources for two reasons. First they back up what you write. Second, they show that others are taking notice of the subject and that it's probably "noteable" enough for an article here. Cloveapple (talk) 03:59, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

If you want to read the official policies related to my note above I'd suggest: WP:RELY, WP:NOTE, WP:COI However don't worry too much if you don't understand every detail. Cloveapple (talk) 04:10, 15 July 2011 (UTC)