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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Doceirias (talk) 04:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's nothing personal, I promise; wikipedia policy simply does not allow coverage of self-published work, or the creation of websites to advertise fanzines. I'm sure you have ambitious plans for your magazine, and I wish you the best of luck, but allow someone else to create a page covering it when it begins to meet the notability policies. It's a little early in the process for a page to exist at all, and we don't allow any companies to make the page themselves, even the big guys. Doceirias (talk) 06:01, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD Nomination: Karui Shosetsu Magazine[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Karui Shosetsu Magazine meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karui Shosetsu Magazine. Don't forget to add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

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You aren't a professional company with financial backing, you're a bunch of amateurs (not trying to sound rude, just stating the facts) working for no pay in the hopes of getting an audience. Nobel cause, but WP:Notability is even stricter with self-published works than they are with things published by large companies - and even then, one issue is not considered enough. You need to have several years of success, circulation numbers far more significant than number you cited, and significant coverage in third party sources. A single mention on ANN is not enough. You mentioned other articles created shortly after a series starts - in fact, we just deleted a bunch of those on similar grounds. And nobody involved in editing or writing the magazine can create the page - conflict of interest. You could correct information if it was wrong, but not create. Either way, you don't need to be arguing with me, but on the AfD - there's a reason Wikipedia has processes like this. This was never something I would decide on my own. Doceirias (talk) 06:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:Karui shosetsu september 2008.jpg)[edit]

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Fair use rationale for File:Karui_shosetsu_september_2008.jpg[edit]

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