User talk:Ellacomm

Your submission at Articles for creation: Amira Celon (August 18)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Primefac was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Primefac (talk) 15:37, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your username[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Ellacomm", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 17:48, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Ellacomm. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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.
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. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

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. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 17:48, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Amira Celon (August 18)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Happysailor was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Amira Celon and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also get Wikipedia's Live Help real-time chat help from experienced editors.

- Happysailor ^(Talk) 17:48, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Ellacomm, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! - Happysailor ^(Talk) 17:48, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Amira Celon (August 18)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Primefac was:

Nothing has been done to address the issues from the previous declines, in particular a complete lack of references.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Amira Celon and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also get Wikipedia's Live Help real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Primefac (talk) 18:45, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Amira Celon (August 18)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Happysailor was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Amira Celon and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also get Wikipedia's Live Help real-time chat help from experienced editors.

- Happysailor ^(Talk) 18:46, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Amira Celon (August 18)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Amira Celon and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also get Wikipedia's Live Help real-time chat help from experienced editors.

KylieTastic (talk) 20:05, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Amira Celon (August 19)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Primefac was:

I highly suggest reading through the Tutorial and the Your First Article page to understand exactly what is necessary for a Wikipedia page to be considered acceptable. Continually resubmitting isn't getting anywhere.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Amira Celon and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also get Wikipedia's Live Help real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Primefac (talk) 17:25, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Getting an Article off the ground[edit]

Hi Ellacomm,

Per your request I'll do my best to make the process of writing a Draft as straight-forward as possible. There is a lot to cover, however, so I apologize if this gets long-winded. Let's start from the top, with determining whether the subject is actually suitable for Wikipedia.

The Golden Rule[edit]

The Golden Rule states that "Articles generally require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic." Let's look at each part of this statement

Significant coverage: This is probably the most important part to get right. The number of sources will tell how "notable" someone is, or in other words "has anyone ever noticed this person?" Passing mentions (film/TV credits, "she worked here", etc) will not work. If we're looking for coverage of Amira Celon in our references, the sources should talk about Amira Celon. Has anyone written an in-depth biography or stated how her career started? Has she received any more than a passing mention? If the answers to those two questions are "yes" and "no", respectively, then we can move on to determining if those sources are reliable.
Reliable sources: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, but it's based on what other people have said. Thus, we need to make sure our sources have a high standard of quality. A blog written by some random guy isn't of the same quality as something submitted by an editor at the New York Times. So when we're looking for articles showing significant coverage, we want to focus on newspapers, magazines (online and offline), and websites that have a reputation for fact-checking and editorial oversight. As a note, places like IMDb are not considered reliable because they are user-created, much like Wikipedia.
Independent articles: If your mother were to write a newspaper article about you, it would be considered a primary source and therefore not independent. Why? Because your mother will automatically be biased simply because she's your mother. The same goes for your publisher, your agents, yourself (this includes interviews), etc. Basically, the sources you use in an article shouldn't be directly connected to you.

Writing an article[edit]

The first few paragraphs of an article, called the lead, is where the subject is introduced. Who is this person, what have they done, and why does anyone care? For example, the opening sentence for the Amira Celon draft could be "Amira Celon (born 19XX) is a psychic medium and internet personality." This immediately tells anyone who's visited the page who Celon is and what she does. The lead can be anything from a sentence to a few paragraphs long, depending on the overall length of the article.

After the lead comes any relevant information about the subject. Things that could be included are: birthplace, family, education, career(s), personal life, etc. All of this information should be written in paragraph form (instead of bulleted lists), and just about everything should be referenced to one of our reliable sources. If you go to WP:REFB there is a very straight-forward introduction to using the refToolbar (section 3.1) which is the easiest way I know of to add references.

At the end of the piece comes the references section. This is done by putting ==References==, followed on the next line by {{reflist}}, which will automatically list all of the references from the body of the text.

Summary[edit]

A good article about someone doesn't have to look super-fancy or contain every single piece of information possible. It just has to have facts about the person, backed up by reliable sources, and written in a way that makes sense and is easy to read.

As a final caveat, I should say that not everyone gets an article on Wikipedia. I have seen some editors try for months to get a draft accepted only to (finally) realize that the person/company they were trying to write about isn't considered notable. I am not saying that Amira Celon is not notable, I am just warning you that it is a possibility.

If you need any further help (or if you need something from above clarified), feel free to let me know on this page by pinging me, which can be done by placing {{u|Primefac}} in your message. Alternatively, you can stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel (where I can often be found), or the help desk to ask someone for more assistance.

As a final note, make sure you sign your talk page posts by placing ~~~~ at the end of your message. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 18:03, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Amira Celon concern[edit]

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Amira Celon, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Amira Celon[edit]

Hello, Ellacomm. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Amira Celon".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]