User talk:Knuxstar

Speedy deletion nomination of The dragontome series

Hello Knuxstar,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The dragontome series 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. Schetm (talk) 15:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of The dragontome series

The article The dragontome series has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NBOOK, no secondary sources for this not-yet-published book.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. McGeddon (talk) 17:03, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Writing an article about your own books

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Wikipedia contradicts itself

Wikipedia claims its a site where anyone may post delete or edit articles but then they come up with a rule that makes no sense since Wikipedia staff creates articles to help people set up articles they have made their own conflict of interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Knuxstar (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia is absolutely entitled to set up its own rules about what articles may or may not be created. "Anybody may edit" is not the same thing as "Anybody may write about anything." —C.Fred (talk) 17:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

People just have to be careful when writing encyclopedia entries about themselves, their friends, or their own projects, because it's hard to be impartial. It's always better if someone else writes it. (The rule is just for articles about stuff, not about Wikipedia policies, which have a whole different set of rules for how to change them.) --McGeddon (talk) 17:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No reason to doubt

Frankly I wanted to do the page for this and i don't see why this is such a big deal. Authors, directors, Even people you do articles on should be able to edit whats there about them as well as construct their own data. This may be an encyclopedia its a gateway of knowledge. It feels like it becomes a conflict of interest when this kind of thing happens and some of you guys decide things are not worthy of Wikipedia knowledge hub. Frankly there is a lot of the time I check Wikipedia frequently for new warrior cats books.

We've got rules that allow directors and authors to edit their own pages if they're fixing a mistake, and anything more than that has to go through the article talk page first, so that somebody else can check it over. In practice it means that articles just get written by fans instead.

There's a clear line for what gets into Wikipedia and what doesn't, and that line is pretty much "has it been in the news or won an award". It means that Wikipedia doesn't cover everything, but Wikipedia isn't trying to cover everything - that's what the rest of the internet is for. --McGeddon (talk) 17:44, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 17:43, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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