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[edit]05:37:09, 31 August 2016 review of submission by Faridahmadi.itp
[edit]In all due respect I am Farid Ahmadi from Kabul, Afghanistan and want to be Wikipedia editor. I am known as a IT expert around Kabul and people are coming to me when the experience any online streaming issues. They came to me because I am having direct contact with Facebook and Instagram to help people in Afghanistan, I am working for government, non government, high or low profile people.
Many requests are coming to me from public figures, Radio and TV journalists, movie stars, singers, and high profile people that asks me to write about the on Wikipedia. I have written five articles on Wikipedia, but unfortunately the Wikipedia team has deleted all of them. the all had good sources, and the correct information. the only problem was the most of the sources are in Dari our local language not in English, I hope that wont be a problem.
I really need your help as an expert team to improve myself and to be a good Wikipedia writer. Thanks for your consideration
Best, Farid Ahmadi Kabul, Afghanistan
Faridahmadi.itp (talk) 05:37, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
- Hello Farid. It's fantastic that you want to help contribute to Wikipedia. However, you've given yourself a difficult task to start with. Writing new articles from scratch requires a good knowledge of Wikipedia, its markup language and its many policies and guidelines. For that reason we recommend that new editors practice improving existing articles for a while before embarking on their first new one, and then use the Article wizard, which will take you through the process and first submit your article as a draft for an experienced editor to the review. I see you've done that for your most recent attempt – which is great. Draft:Fahim Tokhi has not been deleted, it's just not ready to be published yet. You should read the comment the reviewer left, try to improve the draft, and then re-submit it for review.
- Your first efforts were deleted not because of the lack of sources (sources in Dari or any other language are absolutely fine), or because the information was incorrect, but because the community judged that the topics were not notable. Wikipedia does not have articles about anyone and everything, it only covers people and things that have already been written about extensively in third party sources, and are considered particularly "noteworthy" or "remarkable" within their field.
- In addition, there is a problem in that if you are writing articles about people you know, at their request and/or on their behalf then you may have a conflict of interest. Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy strongly discourages editors from writing about people they have a personal or professional connection with.
- I hope that helps. Joe Roe (talk) 14:11, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
- Desmond011 (talk · contribs)
Desmond011 (talk) 09:33, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
- I have a few comments. An unregistered editor removed the AFC decline notice. AFC decline notices should not be removed while a draft is in progress. (They are removed automatically by a script when the draft is accepted.) Maybe the unregistered editor didn't notice the instructions not to remove the decline template. I have restored the decline notice. Also, the quality of the English in the translated article is not very good. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:00, 1 September 2016 (UTC)