User talk:Gap1234

Welcome!

Hello, Gap1234, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Your request for undeletion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Paul Loeb the dog trainer. JohnCD (talk) 17:58, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Advice

Read WP:Your first article for general advice. Wikipedia's inclusion criterion is called Wikipedia:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought him significant enough to write substantial comment about? More at WP:Notability (people). Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:02, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

August 2013

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Paul Loeb. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 21:48, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Paul Loeb, you may be blocked from editing.

Are you connected to Mr Loeb in any way? It can be very hard to se what is neutral and factual when we have a close connection to a subject. Sentences like "Whatever you call him, he's a success in a wide range of activities involving animals." is pure promotion with no encyclopedic value at all. It is also a copyright violation since that sentence can be found on websites promoting Loeb's books. Please also note that the sentence speculating in how many animals Loeb would have trained if the Tribune article had been written today constitutes original research and is also pure promotion. These are only two of the examples. The article currently reads as a promotion piece, and if it had been newly written it would probably have been eligible for speedy deletion as spam. Since there are slightly more neutral versions in the history, that probably isn't the case.

Please leave the maintenance tags on the article. They are there to signal to other editors that work is needed, and they all still apply. bonadea contributions talk 06:21, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the maintenance tag issue. I was editing remotely and downloading. My remote copy didn't have the tags. The current version doesn't have the tags now so please re-add them to make your process easier. Thanks for pointing out some examples, I'll re-write.Gap1234 (talk) 13:34, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]