User talk:Denisegee69

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Wikipedia is not for "social media campaigning"

Your article The pocket guide to divorce has been deleted - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The pocket guide to divorce. The eventual text of the article made clear that this was part of a class exercise to explore "the multi-faceted world of book publishing", with groups allocated tasks including "social media campaigning".

Now, here is something the class can learn from this: Wikipedia is a project to build an encyclopedia, and that is all it is. It is not "social media", and it is not for advertising or campaigning of any kind. Also, it is quite selective about article subjects: the notability standard for a book to have an article is explained at WP:Notability (books). An unpublished book is extremely unlikely to qualify.

If your instructor suggested using Wikipedia in this way, please ask him or her to look at Wikipedia:School and university projects for ideas on how to arrange projects which are useful both to the class and to the encyclopedia.

The links in the Welcome message above will tell you more about Wikipedia. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:06, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]