User talk:Davidgaz63

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Hello, Davidgaz63, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Kindness Is Contagious, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Help request

Hi NatGertler, I'm very new to wikipedia and find it daunting. Would you care to edit the post I did (since you offered - or at least I think you offered). I tried to be as objective as possible and used as many citations as I could without being promotional. The film received a LOT of press and is widely distributed. I could direct someone to those links, or put them in myself. Please advise me as to the best practices on wikipedia, I do not want to violate any of the protocols, I'm just a newbie and have tried to be as transparent as possible. Davidgaz63 (talk) 16:18, 23 August 2016 (UTC)Davidgaz63

David,

I understand that it is easy to be confused about Wikipedia when starting out. As I'm sure you can understand, many people would like to use this popular resource as a way to promote their materials, so we've had to get cautious about the way that people with reasons to be promotional are allowed to edit.

The best way for you to suggest specific changes to the page or to raise concerns is not to edit on the page itself, but on the "talk page" we have that is solely for discussions about editing that particular article, which you will find at Talk:Kindness Is Contagious. That way, any suggestions get filtered through some other editor, hopefully one without any conflict of interest, before the article is changed.

The biggest current risk to your page being deleted at this point is concern over notability. What that means, in Wikipedia terms, is not so much whether your film is good enough to be noted (believe me, we have pages for some awful films here!), but whether it has already gained sufficient attention in the appropriate places. At the moment, there is nothing in the article that notes that sort of attention; all the references you give are for supporting information in the film, rather than things that talk about the film itself. (You do have a link to the film's IMDb page, but that is not considered an indication of notability, as any film can have an IMDb entry.) So if you could go to the article's talk page and put up a list of a few pieces of coverage your film has received, that could be used to prove notability. A couple tips on that:

• Where the coverage has appeared is of import. An article in the New York Times, which is considered a significant and reliable source, is of much more value in establishing notability than Some Filmfan's Blog, for example.
• As a practical matter, coverage that can be found on the web is a lot more useful than that which can't, because other editors can easily verify its existence.

I will try to make some edits later today, although life is full. Let me know if you have any more specific questions. (You can post them on User talk:NatGertler if you wish; that's probably how I'll see them fastest. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:53, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kindness Is Contagious

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A tag has been placed on Kindness Is Contagious, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page 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. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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