User talk:Kenteyie

A tag has been placed on The african executive magazine, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- Archfalhwyl 11:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see you have recreated the article. I have re-tagged it for deletion. If you think there is an encyclopedic article you could write about it proving notability, verifiable and in a neutral point of view then it would not be deleted. Again, if you wish to contest the deletion place {{hangon}} underneath the tag already on the page. Thanks, James086 ^Talk 12:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The African Executive

Ok, I see your problem. We have policies about what should be in articles, how they should be written and what qualifies for deletion. For a new user it would be hard to find them, let alone apply them. To write an article you need a suitable subject; meaning it's notable, encyclopedic and verifiable. Doing some quick google-ing shows it seems to be notable (based on the number of google hits) and an article on a notable magazine is encyclopedic. The thing is though, that proving it's notability might be hard, the general rule is "a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself". In other words, has there been anything published about this magazine?

What I suggest is that you create a user subpage and build the article to a reasonable standard there. So just edit this red link page: User:Kenteyie/African Executive. Right now that page is empty so it's a redlink and it will take you straight to editing. I suggest collecting some sources, list some websites at the bottom of that page (or create a new subpage by making another link, eg User:Kenteyie/African Executive references and list the references there). This way you can keep it organised and build the article over time so that it doesn't get deleted immediately (user space can be used for building articles). I have done this with several articles, seeUser:James086/maserati, User:James086/karif and User:James086/8C. I hope this helps, of course feel free to ask for more help. I will watchlist the page so I can see how you're going and I will probably edit it a bit (help with some technicalities). Anyway, enjoy making the article, I doubt it will be deleted again. :) James086 ^Talk 06:14, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]