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Speedy deletion nomination of Helios Voting

Hello Li.andy,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Helios Voting for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

–Ammarpad (talk) 03:39, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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Notes

Hi - I noticed that your article on Helios Voting was removed and sent to the draftspace by Ammarpad, where you could work on improving it. It's currently at the Articles for Creation process, which means that it is undergoing a process where another Wikipedia editor (other than you or I) will look at the article and if they agree it should be published, it will get moved live. However before that, it needs some work. Here are my notes:

• Be careful of tone. Some portions read a little bit too casual and I think that this made it a little promotional in some places. This was definitely unintentional, but it's something to be careful about. Basically, while you can and should write about what the system does, avoid focusing on positive aspects, like ease of use.

• You don't have to be extremely short, but you should also avoid going into more detail than Wikipedia needs. For example, the sentence "The platform offers three distinguishing features: individual, universal, and eligibility verifiability." is followed by a paragraph's worth of text - it would be better to try to summarize what all of this means in just a sentence or two, which is essentially that it helps diminish the chances of fraud or other issues that would reduce the system's reliability.

• There needs to be more sourcing. You have some studies as sourcing - while studies aren't inherently wrong or bad, they are problematic on Wikipedia because they're considered to be primary sources on Wikipedia for any research or conclusions drawn by the researchers. Even if published in a reputable journal/book/etc, the publishing outlet doesn't actually reflect on the study and prove whether its wrong. The peer review and editorial process for these outlets just look to make sure that the study doesn't have any huge glaring issues or that it isn't obviously wrong. They don't really verify the work per se. The way to resolve these issues with studies is to show where the study has been covered to some depth in a secondary, independent source, like a journal article or scholarly text. This will be what will help give that level of verification to the study to show that the information has been verified to some degree or another. However on their own, studies can't really show notability or back up claims.

I hope that this helps! I've tagged Ammarpad, so they may have some other suggestions for you as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:52, 24 April 2018 (UTC)