User talk:Csmcad

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Hello, Csmcad, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Afterall, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion of Afterall

A tag has been placed on Afterall requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

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List of contributors (Afterall)

1. Is it really necessary to list every single one? Maybe list only the "notable" ones (i.e. the ones with links, or, if you think still especially notable, use a redlink).

2. Even if so, would it be better to actually use a "List of contributors to xxx" page separately? Though I am not sure whether Wikipedia frowns on these.

Also, note that you only need one vertical space between paragraphs.

Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 17:14, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:44, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think your COI is valid, and I thank you for posting it on the talk page not the main article (i.e. as clutter).

This article is just being born, and I think a little leeway is helpful-- the main contributor seems the best source and nothing he has put has been unverifiable by me using other sources; unfortunately I didn't think they came under the realm of "reliable sources", that's the next hurdle. I also want specific dates etc for issues. I think in time this article can be a valued addition. Sheesh they only do three a year I used to do one a week and hold down a real job at the same time. :) OK it's my birthday just a bitch there :)

Linking in to the various artists and publications, universities etc I think has been helpful and established this is not the Big Issue here. From the mix of red and blue it does seem they have a lot of notable contributors. It is not my line of country, thus I have never read it and don't subscribe to the kind of library that would stock it, so I certainly have no COI (not that you were suggesting I did) but I tried to knock it into shape a bit: from experience I know the first edit is really hard just to learn the metadata and the templates etc (and I'm a software engineer, syntax ain't the problem, lack of help is the problem).

So... next post here will cover that a little... best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 23:49, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cover pictures

Any chance we could get picture stills for covers of the journal? Assuming it has them. Borders Cambridge is literally two doors away from me, and apparently stock it, but I'm not paying for them just to get a cover pic. SimonTrew (talk) 23:51, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]