User talk:Michelle19660620

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jan Hofmeyer Community Services

A tag has been placed on Jan Hofmeyer Community Services, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Where's it gone?

It's at User:Michelle19660620/Jan Hofmeyer Community Services with an 'under rewrite' note at the top. Yes, it is promotional and needs reworking. Read WP:NPOV - neutral point of view. If you use words like 'we', you'll get deleted. That says two possible things. One is that this is written by the subject. The other is that someone is copy and pasting from something written by the subject. The first suggests advertising. The second suggests copyright violation. I'm cutting off here for a moment so you get the first part of the message and don't panic. I'm going to go on and add more, so don't answer me yet. Peridon (talk) 16:53, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Copyvio is at WP:COPYVIO and this tells you in detail about it. Text published elsewhere cannot be used here, basically, as what's here is licensed for anyone anywhere to use and copy. Stuff already published can't be put here because it isn't free to use in this way. I think you've lifted bits from the subject's material (I can't find it on Google, but it might be printed). It needs rewriting, and referencing better. You can't show notability with the subject's site, or profiles or press releases. They must be independent (which none of those are) and reliable (ruling out those again, and blogs, forums, Facebook & Co, and wikis including us). Magazine articles are often OK, but not if it's the CEO spouting what the PR Dept told her to say to a pre-seen list of questions. Things that merely mention the subject are no good ('Providing similar services are Bloggsco, XYZCorp, and Ninja Gerbils Inc...'). Right. Anything first person or second person has to go. We talk in the third person in articles (and my userpage and some that liked my style too). We do not list places to donate to - that's a killer. Wikipedia doesn't allow promoting anything - or APPEARING to promote anything. Nitty gritty now - get rid of anything you've pasted. Find good refs. Show you're working on it. Reword what doesn't fit what I've said. Then ask for advice - or earlier if you're not sure. I'm often around (even when away camping), or ask some nicer people like User:MelanieN, User:Anna Frodesiak (who deals with college and school projects quite a lot) or User:Yopienso (who is a bit busy in outside life, but may find time). They're nicer than me, 'cos I'm one of the nasty admins who delete things. I do prefer saving things if possible, despite my record of deletions. That's it for now. Over to you. Peridon (talk) 17:16, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One other thing - NEVER (NEVER NEVER) start a line with any spaces. It makes your text go sideways off the screen and in a different font. Looks bad. Happens to a lot of new editors. Use things like colons to make stuff move in, like I've been doing here, and if you want something to be a new paragraph just press Enter twice instead of once. There's all sorts of other coding things, but this is simple. Peridon (talk) 17:24, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Jan Hofmeyer Community Services

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The article Jan Hofmeyer Community Services has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article, which appeared to be about a real person, individual animal, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the notability of the subject may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. .

The above is a canned message but I am adding: For this type of article, about a charity, see also Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause. If this subject is notable as an organization, it will need to cite to reliable, secondary sources showing it is (which also verify the information content). See Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners for an easy guide to citing sources.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:37, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

School/College/MBA assignments

If you have been asked to write an article as part of an academic assignment please direct your teacher/professor to the advice at Wikipedia:School and university projects. Hope this helps.--ukexpat (talk) 14:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]