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September 2012[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Adrian Wu has been reverted.
Your edit here to Adrian Wu was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/soimadrian) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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A tag has been placed on Christopher Bates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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The article Christopher Bates has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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A tag has been placed on Christopher Bates, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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A tag has been placed on Christopher Bates, 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/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here.  GILO   A&E 02:13, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

July 2013[edit]

Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Christopher Bates, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Click here to contest this speedy deletion and appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you.  GILO   A&E 02:24, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Christopher Bates Profile Picture.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading File:Christopher Bates Profile Picture.jpg, which you've attributed to Web. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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Talkback[edit]

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Nomination of Shinan Govani for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shinan Govani is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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update re: Bearcat[edit]

additional references have been included. thanks!

Shinan Govani[edit]

None of the new sources do anything at all toward getting him over WP:GNG.

  1. House & Home: People become notable on the basis of coverage they received in the context of their work, not coverage they received in the context of "look at the lovely interior design of their house".
  2. The Globe and Mail: He is not the subject of that piece, but is merely being asked to give soundbite on subjects other than himself. He has to be the thing being talked about by other people, not the person doing the talking, for a source to assist in establishing his notability.
  3. Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism: Not about him, just mentions his name a single time while being about somebody else.
  4. BlogTO: Blogs are not reliable sources for Wikipedia content. It would be fine for supplementary verification of the fact that he published a novel after his notability had already been covered off by enough of the correct type of sourcing, but it is not a source whose existence counts toward the process of doing the covering off of his basic notability.

Bearcat (talk) 00:21, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your continued feedback and observation. Please see below:

a) the article in House & Home is one of the largest magazines in Canada, and while the first two questions they ask is about design, yes...the bulk of the article is about Shinan Govani, his novel at the time and my career. Please read the complete article before responding. Thank you.

b) similarly, the book excerpt we provided is meant less as a name-check THAN as confirmation that Shinan Govani was selected as one of 25 Most Influential People in Toronto, by Toronto Life magazine, along with Margaret Atwood, etc. The actual piece is not on-line, so we provided this as a notation.

Thanks very much!

"My" career? Clearly you need to read our conflict of interest rules — we're not a free public relations platform on which people are entitled to decide for themselves that they "deserve" an article, but an encyclopedia on which articles get earned by passing our notability and sourcing standards. And if that was an accident and you're not personally Shinan Govani but are editing on his behalf anyway, such as you're his publicity agent, then you still have a conflict of interest. Either way, neither the existence nor the content of the article are your prerogative to control — content on Wikipedia is written and sourced and kept or deleted based on our rules, not your own personal ones.
Also, being selected as "one of the 25 most influential people in Toronto" by a local interest magazine is not in and of itself a reason why a person qualifies for an encyclopedia article either. The things you/he did to earn that distinction might be, but they still have to be referenced properly — the fact of being named an "influential local person" by a local magazine is not, in and of itself, "inherently" notable enough to exempt the rest of the article from having to be properly sourced just because the "influential people" listicle exists. Bearcat (talk) 16:00, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]