User talk:Czumbro13

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Ohio Podcasts

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Ohio Podcasts, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hi, thanks for message. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. If you post an article it will be assessed as it stands. If you don't want that to happen, you should write it as a draft. It's a perennial problem for us when students are given class projects without adequate guidance from their teachers about editing Wikipedia. I deleted your article because

it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the broadcaster, press releases, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the broadcaster claims or interviewing its staff. Your references are not independent third-party sources, in fact most are just links to the podcasts themselves.
There is no evidence that these podcasts meet the notability criteria I've linked above and no explanation of how they meet those criteria. Notability requires that they have the national or international significance, not just local interest
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.

The article was just a series of links to the podcasts, with no attempt to do anything other than link to their sites
there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. that's particularly the case when they are spamlinks to the festival and a radio station.
Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: growing attention over the past few years... purpose is to interview successful Ohioans in order to inspire others... showcase the people who are working to make Cleveland better... interesting people and fun things to do in Ohio...— and so on

I can't see that there is any mileage in this article. None of the podcasts seem to have any claim to notability, such as winning a US national Podcast Award, none has referencing to a national of global third party source. I fear that you are wasting your time with this, and that your teachers should have given you better guidance on structuring and sourcing. If you do decide to have another go, before attempting to do so, please read this guidance Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:44, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]