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Events inc

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I've listed this article for peer review because I want to ensure this meets Wikipedia standards and becomes 'official.' Thanks, Carmdru (talk) 18:58, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for your work on this article. Unfortunately it has many major issues and may not meet notability requirements for inclusion on Wikipedia. Here are some suggestions for improvement.

• A major problem is that the article has no references to independent and reliable third-party sources. Although it has a few external links, these are very general and do not specifically mention this firm. This is important for many reasons, which follow.
• The most urgent reason external references are needed is to meet Wikipedia's notability requirements - see WP:NN, which says in part Wikipedia articles cover notable topics—those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time, and are not excluded for other reasons. We consider evidence from reliable independent sources such as published journals, books, and newspapers to gauge this attention. Notability does not directly affect the content of articles, but only whether the topic should have its own article. If the article cannot show that it is notable through citing external refs, it will be deleted.
• The refs need to be to reliable sources - see WP:RS. These sources must be independent of the company itself in order to verify the claims made here - see [[WP:V] and WP:CITE
• My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
• So for example, the current external link to harvard.edu should be a link to something about the event at Harvard, either from Harvard itself or better yet to a news story about the event which mentions the role this company plays.
• Similarly the quotes in the Client Response section all need to be sourced and it is not enough to say Bill Cosby said this to me - the quote has to have appeared in some sort of reliable published source cited here.
• I also note that you have put this article on your talk page and that your user page is a biref version of this too. Since you seem to have worked almost exclsively on it - you should read about possible conflict of interest at WP:COI and may want to read WP:SPA too
• The article reads like an advertisement and needs to be written from a neutral point of view - see WP:SPAM and WP:NPOV
• Article uses bold and italic in ways that do not follow WP:ITALIC
• There is one dead link - see [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=Events_inc here
• Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 11:58, 31 August 2011 (UTC)