LDCortez
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LDCortez (talk) 05:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for your work on Cary Herrman. I've done a little editing to the article and I wanted to explain the changes I've made. I added one reference to the article; however it is a press release and I would really like to have some independent, reliable sources which I haven't been able to find so far. If you know of any, it would be great if you could add them to the article to verify it. I have also added categories to help people to find it, changed some of the markup from HTML to standard wiki markup and moved the image to the top right of the article.
The other alteration I made to the article was to remove some language that I felt was a little promotional, for example, "...the first book of its kind to merge the depth of spirituality and awakening with business. Explaining true needs that must be fulfilled within the lives of millions of Americans, the publication will change the way corporate marketers' communicate with their targeted markets." Wikipedia's policy of neutral point of view requires that articles be without bias, positive or negative. If you have a professional or personal association with the subject of an article, you may also find the conflict of interest guidelines and the Businesses' frequently asked questions useful. They give some useful information for editors contributing to articles in which they have an outside interest.
Sorry to dump all of these links; hopefully some of them will be useful! If there's anything I can help you with, or you'd like to discuss the article further, you can contact me on my talk page. Thanks! --Kateshortforbob 23:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi and thank you for your editing. I am working on placing further references and will be back in touch with you shortly. Hopefully your contributions and the additions to outside references to the work prohibit the "speedy" deletion set by AndrewHowse.
LDCortez (talk) 00:44, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind reply! In answer to your question, it looks from the page log like the original Cary Herrman article was deleted on 2 January because it did not assert the notability of it's subject which is speedy deletion criteria WP:CSD#A7. The usual procedure is that any editor can add a speedy deletion tag if they feel that the article falls under one or more of a list of criteria. An administrator will then review the article and delete it if they feel it meets the criteria. Only administrators can delete pages and view pages that have been deleted. I'm not an administrator, so I can't check out the original article: if you'd like to talk to the deleting administrator about why the original was deleted and what improvements can be made to the new article, they are called Keilana and their talk page is here.
- It seems like you recreated the article today. Recreating articles that have been deleted is often fine; as long as they don't have the same problems as the deleted one! Any editor can still nominate the page for deletion, though, for any number of reasons. In my opinion, since the article does assert notability, it is unlikely to be speedily deleted. However, there are a number of other deletion processes which it could be nominated for. Since the reason the original article was deleted was lack of notability, the best way to avoid this would probably be to assert notability using independent, reliable sources (something Wikipedia is enormously keen on!), so anything like online news articles, newspapers or magazines would be perfect.
- If you have any questions or anything, just drop me a line, and I'll try to answer them (or, if not, point you to someone who can!). There's also a Helpdesk, where lots of editors answer questions on using and editing Wikipedia. Thanks, --Kateshortforbob 01:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hi LDCortez, The new version certainly looks more sustainable than the old. I noticed your comments on the article talk page about multiple independent sources; it would be great if you were to cite them. --AndrewHowse (talk) 01:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
June 2008 edit
