User talk:Tacutting

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Tacutting, good luck, and have fun. – Aboutmovies (talk) 07:46, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of SkateSlate (Magazine)

Hello Tacutting,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged SkateSlate (Magazine) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Müdigkeit (talk) 09:44, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of SkateSlate (Magazine)

Hello, Tacutting. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, SkateSlate (Magazine), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

1. edit the page
2. remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
3. save the page

Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:08, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Tacutting, you are invited to the Teahouse

Hi Tacutting! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! Jtmorgan (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the Teahouse This message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 01:15, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of SkateSlate (Magazine) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article SkateSlate (Magazine) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SkateSlate (Magazine) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:45, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

FaceBook

Well, FaceBook generally fails as a reliable source. See WP:FACEBOOK - especially since the link is a fanpage. Beerest355 Talk 19:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Do you have any suggestions for how I can establish a WP credible reference for SkateSlate's launch date? The facebook launch is not a post, but rather a Facebook date that represents when SkateSlate launched. Open to suggestions that are used in other WP articles. Thanks! TacuttingTalk 12:30, 24 June 2013 (PST)

If you can find a source that establishes the start date, go for it. SkateSlate's official website would be allowed in this case. Beerest355 Talk 19:34, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

June 2013

Hello, Tacutting. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article SkateSlate, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Michaelzeng7 (talk) 00:35, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you Michaelzeng7, I understand the concerns and have done my best to address each one you have listed. I will go ahead and delete any linkbacks and that should bring the article in full compliance according to the potential conflict of interests you list out. Thanks. Tacutting (talk) 05:47, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Re: SkateSlate article deletion

To be clear, I didn't delete the article - I simply expressed an opinion as to whether it should be or not, as is the purpose of Articles for Deletion. I'm not an administrator and I didn't close the discussion. I did, however, remove the comment you added after that discussion had been closed. It has been closed and archived and as the note at the top and bottom both say, "No further edits should be made to this page".

The best place for such a comment would be here (where others can respond).

I understand your frustration but to be perfectly frank, several people have tried to give you "guidance" and "help" above but you don't seem to have taken much of that on board. And if you think a WikiProject is an "authority" on anything then you have the wrong idea about what a WikiProject does. The point of a WikiProject is to bring editors interested in a particular subject together to edit articles related to that subject. If anything, members are more regularly accused of bias because they try to "save" related articles when they really should be deleted. My point was that even as a member of that project, having done a stack of work on longboarding articles, I wasn't able to find evidence that the magazine is notable.

As explained at the AFD, for a subject to be considered notable, it needs to have received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. If it hasn't, then it won't be considered notable. There was no evidence presented to suggest that it had and so I called it non-notable. Others agreed, an admin agreed that was the WP:CONSENSUS and the article was deleted. My opinion carried no more or less weight than anyone else's in that discussion, it just happened to be the last.

I'm more than happy to help you build an article for your magazine (though our conflict of interest guidelines suggest you shouldn't be editing it at all) but, like others at the AFD discussion, I would need to see significant coverage in multiple reliable sources to be convinced it meets our inclusion guidelines. Stalwart111 07:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)