User talk:Karahasan
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Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Dzevad Karahasan. The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:10, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
The article Dzevad Karahasan has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 00:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Potential conflict of interest
[edit]Based on your user name:
Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Dzevad Karahasan, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.Active Banana (talk) 01:28, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
References and Notability
[edit]Hello, In Wikipedia content terms, "references" applies citations of some form to published content about the subject, not to ISBNs for works by the subject.
See also our requirements that topics of articles meet the "notability" requirement - that third parties, with a reputation for fact checking and accuracy have considered the subject of the article worthy of covering. A bio blurb on a faculty website is OK for non-controversial information such as the fact that he is a member of the faculty or that he writes about certain subjects or uncontested claims of where he was born and birth date, but because it is not a third party source, it does not count towards "notability". Active Banana (talk) 16:15, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. In May you added a reference to a book from the "Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases" series published by Icon Group International to this article. Unfortunately, Icon Group International is not a reliable source - their books are computer-generated, with most of the text copied from Wikipedia (most entries have [WP] by them to indicate this, see e.g. [1]). I've only removed the reference, not the text it was referencing. I'm removing a lot of similar references as they are circular references; many other editors have also been duped by these sources. Despite giving an appearance of reliability, the name "Webster's" has been public domain since the late 19th century. Another publisher to be wary of as they reuse Wikipedia articles is Alphascript Publishing. Fences&Windows 16:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)