User talk:Jacob.biamonte

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Proposed deletion of Vlatko Vedral

The article Vlatko Vedral has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Burpelson AFB (talk) 03:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

August 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Decoding Reality has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74GHNf8JPYU. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:50, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Decoding Reality do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74GHNf8JPYU. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:52, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Decoding Reality

Just so you understand, the reason I deleted the article as "advertising" was that you didn't really write an article about the book; apart from the infobox, all the article really contained was a description statement that appeared to be copied and pasted directly from the book jacket itself (which means I could also have deleted it as a copyright violation), and a link to the Amazon.com page.

Articles on Wikipedia need to be original content, so what you need to do is to write a neutral description, in the third person, of what the book is (starting with the basics, for example "Decoding Reality is a book by John Soandso and Mary Suchandsuch, published by We Publish Books in Year. The book is about...") and why it's important. It's not enough to just assert that it's one of the most important books on the subject; we need properly referenced evidence (newspaper articles, publishing trade magazines, academic journals, etc.) which demonstrates how and why it's important: has it been cited by media as one of the most reliable texts on the subject, has it won a major award for scientific literature, are the authors generally recognized as leading authorities on the topic, that kind of thing. Certainly any book that exists is a valid potential topic for a well-written and properly referenced article, but the mere fact that it exists isn't enough if the article doesn't explicitly make clear why it's important for us to have an article about it.

I wanted to choose an example for you to look at of a science book article that's well-written enough to demonstrate what I mean, but not so thorough that it's likely to be an unattainable model for you to work toward — so take a look at The Ragged Edge of Science. Your article doesn't necessarily have to be a slavish copy of that, but it should be written in something like that kind of style: the way it's described from the perspective of a third person rather than that of the author, the way it provides a basic synopsis of the book's content and an explanation of why the book is significant, the way statements are referenced to sources, etc.

If you do want to work on getting the article up to snuff, you can do it at User:Jacob.biamonte/Decoding Reality so that you have time to work on it without it getting deleted before you're ready.

Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 19:27, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]