Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian

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For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. -- ReyBrujo 02:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Norilana Books

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Norilana Books, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. ReyBrujo 02:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Norilana Books

Message posted on Sunday, April 29, 2007

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Norilana Books. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://www.norilana.com/norilana-about.htm in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Butseriouslyfolks 02:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest Issues

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

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If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. --Butseriouslyfolks 04:01, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedia Editor,

As someone involved in writign and publishing for over 20 years, whose work has been recommended for the Nebula and Spectrum Awards, featured in Year's Best, and translated into eight languages and who has been interviewed in the Chicago Tribune on the subject of Harry Potter, among other things, I believe I am sufficiently notable to warrant an article in Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Vera Nazarian

AfD nomination of Norilana Books

I've nominated Norilana Books, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Norilana Books satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norilana Books and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Norilana Books during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Pan Dan 16:23, 9 May 2007 (UTC)