User talk:Risingguns 007
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[edit]Regarding your email: unfortunately, there is no regular process for requested articles to be written by other editors. That is, Wikipedia writing is done almost 100% by unpaid volunteers, who work on whatever they want to.
At this point, you have three choices:
- Wait, and hope that someone, eventually, will write the article. ("Eventually" could be a long, long time.)
- Write the article yourself. (Since you have a conflict of interest, you'll need help - which I will provide - to actually publish the article.) If you take this approach, here is a some guidance:
- Pay someone to write the article. You'll find a list of those who write articles, for pay, at User:John Broughton/Declared paid editors for hire. The cost should be less than USD 1000, but you'll have to ask, to get an exact price. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 15:38, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
- Sure, I'm happy to help. I suggest as a first step that you improve the references (footnotes/citations) that you found. I've created a draft page for you:
- If you edit that page using VisualEditor, when you click on a URL-only citation, the dialog box includes a "Convert" button. Clicking on that will get you started.
- Second suggestion: Every sentence in the (draft) article should be information that comes from one of the sources you've gathered. That is, every sentence should have one (at most, two) footnotes, and all the information that sentence should come from the source that you're citing. You should look at Cracker Barrel as an example of how to do this.
- Sources you should not use: the company's website (except possibly for really basic information, such as the number of employees), and press releases. (It looks like one of the sources you listed is a press release; again, this should be used only for the most basic of information, such as the CEO's name. Press releases are not considered reliable sources for things like describing what a company has accomplished.
- So, I suggest that you (a) improve the footnotes, and (b) write one or two paragraphs on the draft page, then get back to me, and I'll give you some feedback and suggestions for the next steps. Again, if you read and follow either of these, you'll be fine:
- What you've done is a good start. The original version had 13 sources, including the company website and a prnews press release (not usable, generally), so a maximum of 11 potentially usable sources to be used for footnotes.
- The current version has citations that use 5 sources. You should add, to the article, information and footnotes for any of the remaining 6 sources that you can. (I looked at just two of those 6; one was a product review - almost definitely not usable for a Wikipedia footnote, the other was about insuring Olympic athletes, which I think is usable.)
- The importance of having more citations is that the article about the company needs to meet the criteria of WP:CORP. The more (valid) citations you have, the better. Also, I note that citations don't have to be English sources, though that's preferable.. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:02, 6 August 2016 (UTC)