Alexpolanco007

Alex Polanco article

Hi Alex. Welcome to Wikipedia. You've recently created an article that appears to be about yourself and that does not seem to meet our general criteria for inclusion. I'd like to gently suggest you reconsider this article. Our experience at Wikipedia has been that people who create and edit their own bios can find the experience unsatisfactory and stressful. You might take a look at our conflict of interest guidelines for more about how we ask editors to contribute on articles they are closely connected with. Articles on Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, this means negative as well as positive information can be added. There are sometimes candid discussions about subjects that can be uncomfortable to follow if you are actually the person being discussed.

I also think you are likely to run into some issues about the existence of the article itself. Although you assert that Alex Polanco is notable in the lead of the article, there are no details about what is notable. We have guidelines on notability that outline what is normally required for a Wikipedia article. Generally they boil down to requiring multiple, non-trivial mentions of the subject in independent, reliable sources. Passing mentions, puff pieces, or pieces in unknown, poorly respected, or personal publications are not normally acceptable. If you cannot provide significant verification of your notability you will likely find the article recommended for deletion which will lead to a debate by other editors. Again, this can be uncomfortable and frustrating to follow if you are the one being discussed.

If you decide you would like to get rid of the article; or if you believe you meet the criteria and would like help in formatting please let me know by leaving a message here or at the bottom of my talk page and I will do my best to assist. -- SiobhanHansa 18:10, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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I need help formatting the article and including the notable references. I tried adding some to the biography page. Still getting familiar with the guidelines. Please advice. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alexpolanco007 (talk • contribs).

Hi Alex - Let's start with - what are the references that you believe show notability? If the sources are online, please list links here. If they are in paper only publications, use a standard academic citation for each one along with a brief summary of what it says about you. (I'm assuming here from your username that you are the same Alex Polanco - if not, let me know and I'll adjust my language). -- SiobhanHansa 23:36, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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Yes, I'm Alex Polanco and the author of the article. I've designed the official websites for many of the clients listed but have difficulty finding a source to cite (such as dknyjeans.com, danabuchman.com, mexxusa.com, unaoc.org, etc). I can probably have someone write the bio from a neutral point of view directly rather than myself if that helps. If not, then I guess it can be removed until I can gather enough credible citations. Thanks.

PS - am i responding in the right place? not sure if I'm doing this correctly.

Alexpolanco007 00:05, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Alex. Responding here is just fine. I have your page watchlisted so I see when a change has been made. The more general practice on Wikipedia when talking with individual users is to respond at the bottom of the talk page of the person you are talking to, since they then get the You have new messages banner at the top of their page. If you respond more than once about the same thing the second and subsequent messages get put with the first response, indented each time (you indent using colons (:) at the beginning of each new paragraph). But that leaves all your messages on my talk page and all my messages on yours and that can be difficult to follow, so keeping everything here works for me.

On the references front - you're really going to need those citations, and most probably citations that are about you rather than the websites you create. In many ways, especially for the sort of work you seem to do, a person needs to have a degree of fame beyond their immediate circle to be suitable for an article (its not the only possible criterion, but the most common for living people). So if you get profiled in mainstream publications, or receive critical acclaim from prestigious organizations those sorts of things would be great citations. -- SiobhanHansa 00:29, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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Can you please remove this article until I can gather my sources and citations? Otherwise let me know how i can do it myself. Thanks. Alexpolanco007 02:32, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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