User talk:Shafqatislam

Why was NewsCred removed as a news aggregator?[edit]

Hi
First of all, welcome to Wikipedia!
I did indeed remove the Newscred article from the List of feed aggregators. In the past, this list has often been used to promote very small and non-notable (with respect to encyclopaedic inclusion) RSS readers, which is why per consensus only items with either an article here or some other assertion of notability should be included.
I researched NewsCred for a bit now, and although it is very young, I still saw enough news coverage in independant sources that led me to readd it to the list.
I personally don't think that it meets the notability guidelines for its own article yet. Per Wikipedia:Notability (web) it needs to "notable and of historical significance", which I don't see yet for NewsCred (I'm the first to agree though that this is violated by a number of articles in that list at the moment, but nevertheless).

Anyway, thank you very much for your civil message, and I especially appreciate your full disclosure of your co-foundership of Newscred. I hope that you stick around, I'm sure that there are also a lot of other articles that you can contribute to. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea^Talk 10:56, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing, adding links to newscred in the external links section of arbitrary articles is probably not a good idea, per WP:LINKSTOAVOID and WP:LINKSPAM.
I also saw that you already opened a deletion review, so let's see how that turns out. As I mentioned above, WP:WEB is pretty strict, so don't be disappointed if it doesn't work out yet. Once it's been around a bit longer and there is enough in-depth coverage about it to be encyclopaedic and pass WP:WEB, it can simply be recreated.
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea^Talk 12:35, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that if you still want the old article as a starting point, talk to someone in Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles to do just that. They can undelete the old article and move it to your user space, so that you can work on it there. Cheers, Amalthea^Talk 16:45, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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Newscred article restored and moved[edit]

Hi Shafqatislam, I've restored the article, and moved it to User:Shafqatislam/Newscred.--PhilKnight (talk) 19:49, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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