User talk:CourtMTK
Welcome[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. To find out more about how to make useful contributions, take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means, and on Notability (companies) for more detail. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. Follow the links below to learn more:
- To find out more about creating articles, read the Introduction, the Tutorial, and the Guide to creating your first article.
- You should not write articles about yourself, your band, or your best friend - that's a conflict of interest.
- Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Before writing about your own business, read Business' FAQ.
- For experiments, please use the sandbox.
JohnCD (talk) 21:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on MapEasy requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia.This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.
If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 21:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Working on draft articles[edit]
It sounds from the note you left on my talk page that you had some questions about an article that was recently deleted about a company you work for. First, I want to say that writing about yourself, or organizations you have a vested interest in, known in Wikipedia as a "conflict of interest" (see WP:COI) is strongly discouraged. Keeping a neutral attitude (see WP:NPOV) is difficult if not impossible to do in situations like that. However, I also sense that you have a genuine concern for improving Wikipedia, and it sounds like you also have some actual understanding of what makes a subject, like your company notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia (see WP:N and WP:CORP. Also, creating articles from scratch is hard to do. You may want to read Wikipedia's Guide to Creating your First Article to understand more about the common problems with creating articles.
Now, one thing that I have found is that articles that are in the process of being created often get deleted before they are in an acceptable form. This can be very frustrating for users, who see their work deleted before it is completed. Wikipedia has a mechanism for allowing you to craft an article at your own pace, and in such a way that it won't get deleted. Wikipedia policies allows great leeway with what you do with your Userspace. Your userspace (see WP:USERPAGE) is defined as your user page, your user talk page (i.e. this page) and any subpages you create under your userpage (a subpage is created by using the main page, and adding a / after it. See WP:SUBPAGE). If you want to create a draft version of the article, go to your "userpage" and enter the following as a link [[User:CourtMTK/SUBPAGENAME]], with the "subpagename" whatever you want to name your article. When you save this edit, you should see a redlink. Click the redlink, and you will be able to create the subpage, which you can save, and work on at your leisure.
Since this is an article that has been deleted before, let me check out the draft version BEFORE we move it to the main article space at Wikipedia. We want to make sure that the version will be acceptable and won't be deleted. If you want, I can help out along the way as you write it. I would be glad to help you work through the trickier aspects of referencing and formatting a good article. Just let me know, at my talk page, if you need any help, or are ready for me to check anything out for you. Good luck, and stay in touch. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:16, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Fixed up the article[edit]
Take a look at the version I fixed up. We clearly have enough here for a stub article, and I have cleaned it up to meet wikipedia's Manual of Style. The references should meet notability standards with flying colors, though I had to comment one out since the reference link is dead. What do you think? If this looks good, I will move it to the main space... Sound good? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)