User talk:MichaelNH1977

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Channeltivity

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April 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. A page you recently created, Channeltivity, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so I have moved it to Draft:Channeltivity so that you can continue working on it. If you have any questions, please leave a note on this page. Please consider using the Article Wizard. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. - Mr X 15:38, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Advice

I have added to the top of the draft page a header with a green "Submit" button which will send it, when it is ready, for review by an experienced user who will either accept it or give you feedback; but don't submit it now, because as far as I can see it contains nothing but the name of the company.

You seem to be starting with the infobox. While an infobox is of some use, it is not essential and certainly not sufficient. As suggested above, start by reading WP:Your first article. The important thing is that the article should explain basic facts about the company and why it is significant or important.

Wikipedia's inclusion criterion is called Wikipedia:Notability and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Facebook, Twitter, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also WP:Notability (organizations and companies) and WP:Notability (summary).

In fact, an article should be based primarily on what others say about the company, not what it says about itself. You should take great care to avoid anything that sounds like promotion, or even like "telling the world about ourselves" - that's not what an encyclopedia is for, and Wikipedia is very resistant to being used in that way. Do not, for instance, copy material from the company website: there would be copyright problems, but apart from that the tone would be unlikely to be suitable. Read WP:Verifiability] and WP:PEACOCK. Rather than vision and mission statements or the company's plans and hopes, an article should be about what it has actually achieved.

If you are connected with the company, please also read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I notice it's been three months since you last worked on Draft:Channeltivity. Do you still want to develop the article? There is no rush but if the article remains unedited for another 3 months we may assume you have given up on the idea. A small, token edit is all that is needed to show you are still working on it. Rankersbo (talk) 08:39, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Channeltivity

Hello, MichaelNH1977. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Channeltivity".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 21:31, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]