User talk:Floyd Howsen

Robert Quigg[edit]

Hi, thanks for message. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. I deleted your article because

it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, or they will be deleted.
it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.

Note that the article was tagged for deletion by another admin, so it's not just me

The referencing is suspect. For example, the first ref is basically an interview with Quigg, hardly an independent source.
Fully capitalising his projects is spammy
There is absolutely nothing about him that isn't promoting his projects. We don't know where he was born, his age, his qualifications or his career.
The tone is relentlessly spammy. First sentence has an unsourced claim presented as fact a luxury property developer
second sentence QUINTESSENTIALLY QUIGG (spam caps), high-end residential and luxury commercial developments unencyclopaedic and promotional tone. He is considered a global leader in this field you need more than a couple of refs based on interviews with him to substantiate this sweeping claim
The rest of the article is in the same vein (master-planned... unique...), advertising leaflet rather than encyclopaedia entry
You appear to have a conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that he is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

If you want to improve this article, I am prepared to restore it to a user page for you, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:41, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll post the text here soon Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:20, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

More[edit]

It's better, but still a couple of problems.

It's effectively still just about his company, which looks spammy. We are not told anything else about the man. No date of birth, education, qualifications, to whom he was first married etc. At present, it's a vehicle to talk about the company, not a biography of Quigg
Could you give links to the refs that don't have them? I would have thought that relatively recent newspaper articles would be available on line Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:12, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks better, although I'm not sure why you have gone for the CV order 2007 to 2005 rather than the more natural chronological order normal in biographies. Has he ever had negative publicity? That would help to balance the article. Although there is now nothing that is clearly spam, it's pretty uncritical. When you are happy, move the article (don't cut and paste) back to article space and see what happens Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:27, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I've edited the article "Robert Quigg (developer)" and would like to submit it. I've tried to move it from my Sandbox but I'm not sure if it's done correctly? Floyd Howsen (talk) 07:17, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't (you'd moved it into the project namespace), but another user has now moved it to the correct title at Robert Quigg (developer). Yunshui ^雲 _水 09:18, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]