User talk:Plumucci

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Plumucci, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Joseph Burton Lumpkin, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Joseph Burton Lumpkin[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Joseph Burton Lumpkin, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. (See section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) If a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
It 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. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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March 2017[edit]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:07, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

Hi, thanks for message. 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. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to him or his company, press releases, sales sites like Amazon, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the he claims or interviewing him. Most of your text was unreferenced or referenced to unacceptable sources that were not independent third-party sites. Incidentally, you shouldn't use bare urls for references anyway
To show notability you need hard independently verifiable facts such as book sales figures, awards etc. The fact that he has self-published many books doesn't necessarily make him notable, and six years ago the community decided that he wasn't. That might have changed, but nothing you wrote indicates that it has.
there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. Your article was nothing but external links, many being spamlinks to Amazon. There should be one external link to his own website
You have a conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must formally declare it. Since you have had direct or indirect paid involvement, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Plumucci. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Plumucci|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you have been or are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:46, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]