User talk:Midnightvii

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Hello, Midnightvii, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Legends of Voldavia, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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Proposed deletion of Legends of Voldavia[edit]

The article Legends of Voldavia has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-significant new (Nov 2010) book. Lots of commercial listings, little else.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:21, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: Legends of Voldavia[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Legends of Voldavia, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.publishamerica.net/product37086.html, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Legends of Voldavia saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 18:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Legends of Voldavia for deletion[edit]

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

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legends of Voldavia until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 18:26, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Response to your questions[edit]

This is in response to the inquiry you left on my talk page. In that edit, you admit that you're the author of Legends of Voldavia and that your purpose in creating that article is entirely promotional: "I am ... trying to get the word out. ... [I]f I can get my book recognized on Wikipedia, it will "legitimize" it. ... I'm an author that is struggling with marketing my book and could use all the help I can get." You have two problems, first, the use of Wikipedia for promotional purposes is absolutely forbidden by Wikipedia policy, and second, your book does not appear to meet the notability standards set by Wikipedia for inclusion here. Though the promotional intent is improper, it does not come through in the text of the article, however, and your work here should be judged by its content, not by your intent. There are, however, Wikipedians who will take your intent into account. As for your book's notability: Though it may not look like it on first blush, there are strict policies on what subjects and content can and cannot be included in Wikipedia. In very general terms, before a person, place, thing, organization, or idea can be included in Wikipedia it must have

already been recognized
as important or significant
by objective, independent, and provable third party sources
with a established reputation for fact-checking
which are independent of both the subject of the article and of Wikipedia itself.

That's just a plain-English generalization of the actual rules to give you an idea of what's going on here, so don't rely on it but refer to the actual policies instead. (For a great analogy illustrating these concepts, see WP:SCRABBLE.) Without a working knowledge of Wikipedia policy it can be very frustrating to try to write an article that won't be deleted. I've tried several times to write a better introduction to editing than can be found at the Article Wizard and Your First Article and I can't. Don't be tempted to skip past sections of either one, they're full of solid gold information. Also, if you've not done so already, you need to read the Notability, Verifiability, No original research, What Wikipedia is not, and Conflict of interest policies from beginning to end. Adding links to the existing reviews of your book might save it, but only if they're from sources described by the last three bullet points above; online blogs, individual people's websites, and user reviews at places like Amazon won't be enough. Good luck with your editing, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 19:41, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

April 2011[edit]

Hello Midnightvii. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Legends of Voldavia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 19:46, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]