User talk:Pamela Girardin

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User:Pamela Girardin/Sanjay Singh (entrepreneur)

At your request, I have restored the article and movef it to a user page: User:Pamela Girardin/Sanjay Singh (entrepreneur). You can now edit it at your leisure.

Re-reading it with the understanding that it wasn't written by Sanjay Singh makes the article read a lot less promotional. When it was originally created, the impression given by the article was that it was self-promotion, hense the speedy deletion.

A few things you need to address.

1. Are you connected with Sanjay Singh in any way, be it professionally or personally? If so then you MUST declare this. Have a read of the Conflict of Interest policy.
2. Make sure that he is truly notable. A small amount of coverage in CNN and the Washington Post does indicate that there is enough notability to avoid speedy deletion, but it might not be enough to survive a deletion discussion. Have a read of the notability guidelines, and make sure that he is or the article may well end up deleted.
3. The article, once you know that it wasn't written by Sanjay Singh, isn't as promotional as it appears. I would make a declaration in the Talk page to that effect though, otherwise others will not realise it and nominate it for deletion again. You might also find this article useful, as it describes words and phrases to avoid.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Stephen! ^Coming... 09:33, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Sanjay Singh

I have been following the fate of this article. I understand you want to create a decent article which is the gentleman's biography. Your original user name makes me concerned that you may have a conflict of interest and are in some manner connected with the gentleman. This does not disbar you from writing the article at all, but t does make your life more difficult.

If you are connected in some manner then it is very much harder to maintain a neutral point of view when writing your article. It is also harder to avoid digressing into clutter that is not, of itself, biographical, such as the history of the companies and organisations he worked in or for. Obviously you will appreciate that such elements are for articles on those organisations themselves, if they are, themselves, notable.

Before restarting work on the article, which I see has now been placed in your user space, may I suggest that you read this essay and the elements it links to. You have plenty of time to do this. Unless there is some deadline you have in mind for yourself, Wikipedia will still be here even if the work takes a year!

One thing you might choose to do in order to get the guidance you may wish for is to look at the articles for creation programme which seeks to ensure that articles are reviewed for suitability prior to being launched into the main article space. Even then there is no guarantee that an article will survive, but it has a far better probability of survival, the more so since you are inexperienced in Wikipedia. Fiddle Faddle 09:34, 30 August 2013 (UTC)