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03:54:15, 8 February 2016 review of submission by Echiu888

• Echiu888 (talk · contribs)

Hi,

I am the Marketing Executive at MedicalDirector. There was a change of trading name and so I went into the page to update the information to content that I had written myself. I cannot understand why this content has been declined. As a representative of the company, I am a direct source for this information. I am unsure how else to reference the information.

Can you please advise how to proceed.

Kind regards Bianca Echiu888 (talk) 03:54, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

@Echiu888: Welcome to the Help Desk! There are several issues at play here. The first is that, as a party who is directly related to the company you are trying to write about, you have a conflict of interest. Conflict-of-interest editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia and I'd suggest you stop working on the subject entirely. That aside, the draft is entirely unsourced, it is written like an advertisement, and it uses informal language like "you" that is not appropriate for an encyclopedia article. Finally, there is already an article about Health Communication Network, so if it has merely changed its name to MedicalDirector, there is no need for a whole new article. Changes should not be made directly to the article, but rather suggested on the article's talk page by using {{Request edit}}. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 04:09, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

06:53:35, 8 February 2016 review of submission by PaulJRogers

• PaulJRogers (talk · contribs)

PaulJRogers (talk) 06:53, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello PAGE NAME: Paul J Rogers I recently submitted content to be included on wikipedia. I am an artist/musician. I followed the profile of other artists however the cohelp me nent I supplied was declined. Can you please help me understand why the content was declined and how the content can be edited and adjusted so that it meets your criteria?

thank you

Hello @PaulJRogers:, I took a look at your draft, and unfortunately it does not at all meet the criteria for a Wikipedia profile of a musician. If you see any other Wikipedia page for a musician that only cites their Bandcamp and their own homepage, please bring it to any admin's attention, or paste the code show at WP:Request for speedy deletion and it will be deleted as an improper article.

Articles for musicians absolutely must follow the requirements shown at WP:Notability (music). Please take a quick glance at that, and it will clear up a lot. A musician article must show that outside, neutral, objective experts have written extensively about them. So coverage in Spin, Pitchfork, LA Times, Music Industry Quarterly, and smaller equivalents of such, that kind of coverage matters. Personal pages, Bandcamp, Discogs, CDBaby, Amazon, etc. absolutely do not help at all. We're not denying that a band exists, we're requiring that the article demonstrate that the band matters to outside observers. This is not at all a qualitative judgment, plenty of bands suck and are famous, and some great bands never get the media coverage they deserve, but we don't make judgment calls, we just use the documentation that exists.

The other big problem is it's pretty clearly ad advertisement written for yourself, which we don't allow under WP:Conflict of interest. Phrases like "These days you can find Paul creating original music..." are absolutely not phrases that a neutral, objective encyclopedia uses. Encyclopedias don't heartily encourage the reader to check out someone's Bandcamp page or talk about how visionary they are.

My big advice, if you want to contribute to Wikipedia, pick topics you're passionate about that are well-documented and write a short article clearly cited to those documented sources. Pick a less-known musician that has old news articles about him and mention in books but no Wikipedia article yet, for example. If your sole goal on Wikipedia is to advertise yourself, you're just going to end up getting disappointed. So, good luck with whichever course. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

12:23:13, 8 February 2016 review of submission by Crawford88

• Crawford88 (talk · contribs)

I tried creating a page for a book, launched recently in Jan 2016. I tried submitting twice but got rejected. What more needs to be put in here for the article to get accepted?

Crawford88 (talk) 12:23, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

14:57:45, 8 February 2016 review of submission by Benm182

• Benm182 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Fideres (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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Im writing a PHD on litigation funding and noticed hardly any firms have pages on wikipedia so thought I would chip in.

There is currently one firm which does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Litigation_Funding

but I dont understand how notability has been shown in this article but not in the one which I wrote.

Thanks!!

15:41:48, 8 February 2016 review of submission by Tessthepuppy

• Tessthepuppy (talk · contribs)

Hi! Thanks for reviewing my submission. I'd appreciate any help you can give on how to improve it so that it can be re-submitted. It's my first attempt at a page so I'm sure I've got plenty to learn! Thanks!

Tessthepuppy (talk) 15:41, 8 February 2016 (UTC)