Wikipedia:Drawing board/Archives/2009/July

Article on Agile Innovation Management

I drew up a preliminary draft version of an article about agile innovation management : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dick_janssen

Question is : how can attain proper references? Agile innovation management is a combination of many already existing methodologies which are described inside WikiPedia, can I use them for reference? Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Dick janssen (talk) 18:26, 28 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dick janssen (talk • contribs) 18:22, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not counted as a reliable reference. You will need to find others that use the same term that you do. If you are assembling information together for the first time to describe a new idea, then this is Original research, and you may have made a WP:synthesis. Google scholar can give some idea if academics talk about it, but magazine and newspapers will do to show notability. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

MyBandStock. Wondering if my article is ready to be moved

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alexzanderodell/MyBandStock

I have never made a wiki article before. What more needs to be done to my page in order to make it ready for "prime time"? I'm especially having trouble with citations. All the citations I need can be found at www.mybandstock.com under "About" and "FAQ". Thanks!

Alexzanderodell (talk) 22:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Alex

Hi, unfortunately this sort of reference is not independent and does not show notability. You need more references from other sources such as newspapers or magazines. The newspaper here suggest a some coverage, but to meet WP:N there should be coverage in at least two publications. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Alright, thanks a lot! I have two outside publications now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexzanderodell (talk • contribs) 23:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Just posted an article about a card game.
As it is a new/emerging card game I don't have any sources I can include in the article.
What can I do to stop it being deleted?

Much appreciated. <
—Preceding unsigned comment added by LorriO'Neill (talk • contribs) 15:42, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry you didn't get any response, but your question wasn't in a new section, so it may have been missed. And sorry to report that a new or emerging card game may not be wp:notable enough for inclusion. Articles require Reliable Sources. Sorry.--SPhilbrickT 17:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

kerchoonz.com article

I have been working on an article for a while now and was wondering whether someone could help or have a look at it before I post it. I am also having trouble resizing the logo in the info box for the article to make it smaller. It would be great to have some feedback because I had tried to post a stub of it a while back and I got a lot of abuse from a few editors saying that it was advertising. however, I had been very careful to write it just like other articles that I had found on similar topics and it took me a long while to find references. It was one of my first articles and it was deleted. So, before I try to repost the article, I'm hoping some of you will please look at it in my sandbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cheaperbydozen/Sandbox Cheaperbydozen (talk) 22:33, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

I made a couple minor edits. It looks fine as an article to me, but I am not an expert about what will be okay vs. not. Not sure about the electronics-stub category, is it about electronics? Also is it about the website or about the speaker product or both. If both, the lead paragraph should be explicit about that, and the speaker name should be given in bold. But okay for mainspace, in my view. doncram (talk) 16:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

a new article on Marcia Martin

I am trying to write my first article on Marcia Martin, who wrote Donna Parker books in the 50s and 60s. I am not a technical person here, and I've been trying to copy the style of other articles of similar authors (Margaret Sutton, Carolyn Keene). Could someone take a look? Is it good enough? I don't know how to do sources. The article is at: User:Dzitya/Marcia_Martin. Oh no, is it 5 tildas or 6? 21:43, 27 July 2009 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dzitya (talk • contribs)

Hmm, i think it was supposed to be 4 tildes. The article looks fine and well-referenced to me, though i am not an expert. It's long enough, I think, to meet wp:DYK criteria. You could move the article to mainspace and you could also nominate it for DYK, which would bring it to the attention of many more editors. Also, i revised your posting above to link to the article using double square brackets. doncram (talk) 16:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)