User talk:Lgossman
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Lgossman. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated 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.
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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. Theroadislong (talk) 21:37, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!
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Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by MadScientistX11 (talk) 21:55, 18 December 2014 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Draft:Victor Brombert, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.princeton.edu/fit/people/display_person.xml?netid=brombert.
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[edit]Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by MadScientistX11 (talk) 17:13, 18 January 2015 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).
Some Feedback on Victor Brombert article
[edit]Per my reply in the teahouse here is some feedback:
- You should follow Wikipedia style guidelines. I'm going to point you to a few articles but here is what I do that at least for me often works even better than reading through policies: find an article about some similar topic that is very well known and likely to have received a lot of work. So for example when I was working on an article for a blues rock band I used the band Led Zeppelin as a model. Their pages receive lots of attention and are good examples of what articles in that genre should look like. So if I were you I would find some well known critic who has an article (you can also check the article to see if it was rated highly by some project). Specifically you should review wp:lead section and wp:references.
- Another critical style issue: external links are not allowed in Wikipedia articles except as references. But if you use a URL as a reference it shouldn't just be the URL or even just the URL between two ref tags, there are ways you can still fill in citation info such as the author of the article, the date it was published, etc. Here is a good overview on refs: Wikipedia:References_dos_and_don'ts
- I see you have a warning from another editor about using copyrighted material. That is never allowed and will get your article deleted ASAP. Note that Wikipedia takes copyright much, much more seriously than most sites like Facebook for example. You can't just copy text or images from other sites and paste them here. It isn't just a legal issue, although it is that too, it's also that the style for wikipedia articles is not the same as for most other sites.
- Here are some more good starting points. You may have seen these already but: Wikipedia:Your_first_article wp:42 wp:five pillars
--MadScientistX11 (talk) 17:29, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Victor Brombert has been accepted
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DGG ( talk ) 07:02, 25 March 2015 (UTC)