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17:31:25, 3 March 2016 review of submission by HarlanMonteEnbysk

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HarlanMonteEnbysk (talk) 17:31, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Reviewers!!!

I would like to make this page (CompuCom Systems Inc.) be acceptable, and will make whatever changes are necessary to do so. Can you help me with suggested changes -- rather than just blanket comments about removing links to the CompuCom website? Yes, I can and will do that. Other tech companies such as Cisco have successfully publish Wikipedia pages -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems.

I would like to do the same with CompuCom. This is my first time submitting.

Any advice for what to remove? Any advice to help me with coding the page, such as having a right-nav table with Basic Facts about the company?

Thank you for your help!

Monte Enbysk

@HarlanMonteEnbysk: Of Draft:CompuCom Systems Inc.'s 35 references, the only independent, secondary, reliable source with significant coverage of CompuCom is the Gartner reprint. Delete all the other references, and all material sourced to them. Find several other sources of similar quality to the Gartner one. Think books, scholarly journals, and mainstream news organizations like: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, Barrons, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Business Journal, The Globe and Mail, etc.
Editors will be happy to help you with further advice, such as how to put an {{infobox company}} on the right, but expect them to be hesitant to volunteer their time until you've cleaned out what can't be used and found sufficient independent reliable sources to prove that the company merits a Wikipedia article at all. Worldbruce (talk) 02:18, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

22:09:19, 3 March 2016 review of draft by MHPColorado

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I am wondering how to create a wiki link from a word/phrase in my post, to another article which explains what the term means.

MHPColorado (talk) 22:09, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@MHPColorado: Hello, and welcome to the Help Desk. What you're looking for is called a wikilink, and you can achieve it by clicking "edit" on your draft and enclosing the word you'd like to wikilink in two sets of square brackets. For example, typing [[Colorado]] produces Colorado.
As an aside, I noticed that your username suggests that you may represent the Mental Health Partners organization. Wikipedia's username policy does not allow these sorts of usernames. I'll leave a message on your talk page about changing your username, and about conflicts of interest, which may also be applicable. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 23:28, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

23:03:46, 3 March 2016 review of submission by Cvpc1578

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How do I inset pages in my article?

Cvpc1578 (talk) 23:03, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Cvpc1578: Draft:Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church was a copy of part of the church's website. The immediate problem was that the website doesn't explicitly release the material under a compatible licence, so copying it constitutes copyright infringement. When writing for Wikipedia, you should restate in your own words what the sources say, without copying any of them. The deeper problem is that Wikipedia articles should summarize what third parties have published about subjects. In order to have a Wikipedia article about the church, there would have to be significant coverage of it in multiple reliable sources that are independent of the church. Such sources exist for some churches, but not for most, so most churches don't have Wikipedia articles. Worldbruce (talk) 01:17, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

23:25:39, 3 March 2016 review of submission by NPHICTom

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Help -- I am new to Wikipedia, so I figured there may be some formatting issues. Below is the reason given for the rejection. I am unclear on what it means to set off the headings with nowiki. In addition, in the references there is a formatting concern because the journal listing is for November-December 1993. I think there is an issue with the two months, but I could not find anything in any of the editing tips on how to list a date like that. Can you help?

Why have all of the level 2 headings been set off with nowiki, which prevents them from rendering as headings. Correct formatting. Fix errors in references.

NPHICTom (talk) 23:25, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@NPHICTom: The formatting has been fixed. Date ranges in citations must use en dashes rather than hyphens, in other words November–December 1993 instead of November-December 1993. You may want to consider using one of the techniques described in Wikipedia:Citing sources#Citing multiple pages of the same source, such as shortened footnotes, to reduce citation clutter. It isn't required in order for a draft to be approved, but it's a good practice. Worldbruce (talk) 00:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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