User talk:Mike Ormsby

Hello,

I'm new to Wikipedia and would be grateful for any advice on my first page, entitled 'Mike Ormsby'. I have entered most of the basic text but have not 'gone public' with it yet, because I think the page needs work, EG. verification - I should probably try to see if the Hillywood Film Festival has a website and create a link to that, if possible?

Thank you for any suggestions on content and/or format.

Mike Ormsby

Hi Mike - we welcome all new users on Wikipedia, and I'm glad you seem to have found your way around here. But there are some serious doubts about your (still private) article (the one on your user page). Wikipedia strongly discourages autobiographies as they form a major conflict of interest. I do not doubt your good intentions, but autobiographies are often frowned upon and you have to be prepared for others to mercilessly edit your story.

Another concern is notability: browsing through the links in your text, I found only the on the book - Compania.ro (http://www.compania.ro/index.php?id=75#c371) to provide 'significant' (per WP:NN) coverage. And even that would perhaps be more suitable for the book than the writer itself. A source (maybe a personal page? Or another primary/secondary source) about yourself would provide verifiable biographical data.

More specific remarks:

Google Search results pages do not count as reliable source - instead, point to a specific page and format the source with these templates(http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=hey+mr+DJ+Rwanda)
Please provide a page that verifies your claim: home pages of an institution often do not qualify - (www.psi.org)
Try to keep the tone neutral: this generally means avoiding subjective qualifications such as 'brutal abuse of Congolese children' (just use 'abuse of ...')

If you address these issues, by all means be bold and publish the article! But please have it checked by an experienced editor first - it would be a shame if it were to be nominated for deletion right after publication. It is hard to republish (an improved version) again once it has been deleted. Also, do make note of your conflict of interest (if not clear from your name..), this will make other editors more willing to help you.

Maybe you first want to edit existing articles such as child abuse, Romanian literature or sections of Rwanda?

By all means, ask me or another editor for help or advice at any time by posting a message on the talk page. Cheers, Pim Rijkee (talk) 18:40, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mike, I just saw your (elaborate! We like that here on Wikipedia!) answer and let's say I'll have a look at the best way to get an article (book/author) online. From there on, I can help you in the process in getting the text up to par. Give me some time to work out an approach over the coming days, and I'll get back to you. In the meanwhile, reading about reliable sources is invaluable to your future work here on Wikipedia, so see if you can make a shortlist with the best sources you can come up with!

Cheers, Pim Rijkee (talk) 21:42, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, just a short note. I've taken a look at notability guidelines for both authors and books today. We'll be going for an article about your book, as I can justify its inclusion here ; for an article about the author, I can not (yet). Done properly, I am confident it will work - so now we'll have to start with setting up something. Tomorrow, I'll provide you with some proper examples and tips. Cheers, Pim Rijkee (talk) 23:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Mike. Well, time to get started. In Wikipedia, articles are ranked according to quality: we'll start off by creating a Stub-Class article - very short, concise but enough to pass the new page requirements. Please make a draft on your userpage (I'll put in on my watchlist). Now to get practical:

The title: WP dictates use of the name that is most common in English (even though, in some cases, this is not official/right/up-to-date). I do not always agree with the policy, but here there is little doubt we will work with the translated title. No need to disambiguate, so no (novel) after the title. Ergo: Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania (note lower case 'the').
Fill in the details in the template you can find here. Just paste it below the title and fill in the contents (how-to is below the template). No need to cite here (yet). No info? You can leave that part blank.

Take a look at Daniel Martin (novel). Also a stub (oh, if you happen to stumble upon articles that have unsourced claims and lack a NPOV, remember criteria have tightened dramatically in recent times, after some bad press about the projects reliability - now, you won't pass as easily).

Establish the nature of the subject by repeating the name of the article in the first sentence (check example of Daniel Martin)

Write your 'claim to fame'. If you have source for this: 'These sort of comments helped the book to become 'required reading' for American undergrads studying Romania/Romanian at Duke University in the USA', now that would be great. Remember, print sources are fine too. Maybe ask your contact for a PDF-file that shows the required reading list. Otherwise, go for criterium 4:The person's work… (c) has won significant critical attention due to its style, which has been likened to etc etc. Keep it short, one sentence! But this is important, otherwise you article will get deleted by a process called speedy deletion in minutes (believe me,I've done my fair share of new page patrolling/marking pages for immediate deletion).
New section #Plot. Check WP:PLOTSUM for a guide on this one: again, do not write it 'in universe' - the article will get tagged if it has this problem. Just a few sentences should suffice.
New section #Reception: be modest here (hehe). "Has received a generally positive reception" + quote some reviews, ones that describe its 'cult'-status are especially relevant. Third print + the European anthology as well.

For now, put just the link after your claim to point to the source (as you did in the draft that is currently at your userpage). We'll work out source formatting later in the process. Tip: check if you can find a cover picture somewhere. Will improve the article (or why not scan it?). Well, that should do for a first draft. If you have any questions, you know where to find me. Good luck and I'll keep an eye on your page. If this is done, I'll give you a message again and we'll go from there. Cheers, Pim Rijkee (talk) 22:26, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just left you a note (bottom of page) about the page you linked me to. Re the cover image, you can mail me your picture as an attachment. Send me a mail by clicking the link in the lower userbox 'this user can be reached by email' on my user page, i'll take care of it. Bye, Pim Rijkee (talk) 01:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed the mail problem, missed the confirmation email.. Pim Rijkee (talk) 10:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Selimovic

Hey Mike, I understand how unfair it might feel at times (I put in 10x the effort in some of my edits, making sure they are a valuable edition, only to see some truly bad articles that are still out there with a lot more visitors..). But I guess it's not about getting something on WP with the lowest quality that will pass the always subjective scrutiny, but about giving a reader proper information, nicely formatted and properly sourced. And we are trying to do that now for your book: whatever comes next is something for the future, don't you think? With the knowledge you have then, who knows you might get your writer article online. On a more practical note, the article was edited last 2,5 year ago, had a total of 3 edits and nearly 0 readers. But, it had this nice link to a UN press release about her, so that was what did the trick. Once we get your bio on a UN press release, you're out of trouble ;) Cheers, Pim Rijkee (talk) 01:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello and thank you for your comment. I gave a question. The image I uploaded is one that I paid for, when I commissioned graphic designer Sorin Sorasan to design a new cover for my book 'Never Min thd Balkans'. So, why is this a non-free image? Also, I credited Sorin by name when I uploaded thed image to Wiki. Please clarify: what must I do to be allowed to use the image? The previous cover is several years out of date. Thank you for any response. Mike Mike Ormsby (talk) 20:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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