User talk:Marky555

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Hello, Marky555, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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JohnCD (talk) 18:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More advice

... as promised. Start by reading:

That seems like a lot of reading, but it will save you time in the end. Then make a draft article at User:Marky555/GlobalCollect. Just click on that "redlink" and you can start editing. Take care to avoid anything that sounds in the least promotional, and to cite independent references to establish notability. The notability test is, have other people, independent of the subject, thought it important and significant enough to write about?

When you have a draft, you can post a request at WP:Requests for feedback to get comments from other editors. ("Editor" means just the same as "user" - there is no special "editor" class). Then, when you are ready, ask Jehochman (talk · contribs), the admin who protected the title after the previous attempts, if he will unprotect the title to let you post it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:57, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft

My main comment is that you have not established notability, which requires showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See WP:42 and WP:CORP. Your first reference does not, as far as I can see, mention Global Collect, and the second does not look independent.

Also, it still reads as rather promotional, (a) some parts seeming like a catalogue of the services offered, and (b) in the use of peacock terms like "leading", "largest and most successful" and "significant experience". An encyclopedia article is a completely different thing from what might be called a manifesto such as might go on a web-site or prospectus, designed to promote and put the good points. One of Wikipedia's fundamental policies is WP:Verifiability, which "requires that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged be attributed to a reliable, published source". When about to write a glowing adjective, you should imagine a hostile critic looking over your shoulder saying "Who says so? Can your prove it from a reliable source?"

The most important thing is to find some independent sources to establish notability; without that, it won't pass. Then de-peacock it, and ask for comments at WP:Requests for feedback. When you think it's right, submit it at WP:Articles for creation, where it will either be accepted or you will be given more feedback.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:14, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]