User talk:Kgazoo

This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Emerson_College/African_American_Theatre_and_Culture_(Fall_2017).
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:58, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Movement Theatre Company (November 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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Theroadislong (talk) 21:38, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Kgazoo, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Theroadislong (talk) 21:38, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Movement Theatre Company

Hi! I noticed that you created an article on The Movement Theatre Company. I have some notes on this, as the page still needs some work and isn't really ready to be a live page just yet. I've moved it back to your sandbox at User:Kgazoo/sandbox for the time being. Here are my notes as a whole:

Be extremely careful about writing in a neutral tone. Some of the content can be seen as promotional. For example, I removed the following content because it is something that you'd typically read in something that promoted the company:

"The Movement has set itself apart from other New York companies, by continuing to break boundaries and experiment with theatre and art. One of the most unique qualities of TMTC is their usage of non-traditional spaces, like museums, movie theatres, and gardens for their productions. Be it the setting, controversial topics, or combined styles -- TMTC has been working for the past nine years to bring new theatre to the scene in festivals and workshops in the American theatre scene."

This is sort of your typical promotional speech and while it wouldn't raise an eyebrow elsewhere, it doesn't really fit here. This can be something that takes a while to get used to on here, so be extra careful about this.

I noticed that the sourcing for the article was almost entirely primary, meaning that it was released by a person, group, event, or business that is affiliated with the Company. While these can back up basic details, it isn't something that would be able to show notability on Wikipedia regardless of what it claims. All organizations must have independent, reliable sourcing in order to establish notability, regardless of the type of organization. You do have one source here, but it's not enough to really satisfy notability criteria. A review of one of their productions can help, but you'd need about 4-5 of them on average. Be careful of awards and nominations, as nominations do not give notability on Wikipedia and only a few awards are considered to be major enough to give even partial notability. It's kind of tough to establish notability on awards, to be honest, unless the awards are incredibly major.

When looking for sourcing, make sure to double check for press releases and avoid self-published sourcing. Not all outlets will mark a press release as one, however a typical trademark is that they won't attribute an author to the piece. When in doubt, google some of the content in the article - if it's repeated verbatim elsewhere, it's most likely a press release, which is considered to be a primary source. Also be careful of self-published sourcing, as this is almost never usable on Wikipedia. Sometimes it's easy to tell what's usable - WordPress blogs typically aren't, but sometimes it can be a little difficult. For example, an article written by the Huffington Post's main staff would be OK, but the site also puts out self-published work, which is usually un-edited. This work is usually marked as a blog or the person writing the piece is marked as a contributor whereas staff members will just have their name and a link to their staff page. It can get pretty tricky, so I'd recommend avoiding the HuffPo.

In any case, the company sounds like it's really interesting and offhand I don't think that you'll have a hard time finding sourcing. I mostly wanted to move it so that you can have more time to fix these issues. When something is moved live there's always a risk of deletion and there's never a true guarantee that the next person to see the page will fix the issues. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:26, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:The Movement Theatre Company concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:The Movement Theatre Company, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:35, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of The Farmlink Project

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A tag has been placed on The Farmlink Project, 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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To follow up on this in order to give you some more helpful feedback, the article was written in a tone fit for an uplifting story or company brochure, rather than a neutral encyclopedia article, and would have required a complete rewrite in order to be acceptable. Sentences like Between August and October of 2020 the response team travels across the country in an RV to identify communities in need, execute deliveries, and hear and share stories to better understand this food supply crisis. feel like they're lifted from a press release, and are particularly unacceptable when not supported by any citation to an independent source. The article also excessively cited non-reliable sources, such as Forbes contributors and non-independent sources such as the organization's corporate partners, _signed,Rosguill ^talk 23:02, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sandbox/Kgazoo

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A tag has been placed on User:Sandbox/Kgazoo, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. CUPIDICAE💕 20:30, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]