User talk:Lpansini

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Lpansini, 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 Amy Jo Burns, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Amy Jo Burns[edit]

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. —C.Fred (talk) 02:36, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you are creating a page on Burns for a class project, please re-read and follow your instructor's directions. I hope if he wanted you to create an article from scratch, he gave you information about creating it in your user space, or in draft space, so you could work on it some without the...pressure of having it in the main encyclopedia. (Speedy deletion criteria like A7, lack of notability, apply to the main encyclopedia but not user and draft space.) —C.Fred (talk) 12:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My instructor gave me no directions she just said to create a Wikipedia page for a new author I did a project on. So I'm doing this from scratch and don't know how to do this. The links are removed so what is the other problem with the page if I'm not doing it right ? Thanks Lpansini (talk) 13:19, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, part of the fault is your instructor's: (s)he should have gotten in touch with somebody at Wikipedia for guidance on how to use it in classroom assignments.

The article you are creating is not exempt from Wikipedia policies, including WP:Biographies of living persons. In particular, there is an assertion in the early life section of the article that could (and should!) be deleted because it does not cite an independent reliable source. Even if the person isn't named, (s)he's identifiable, and BLP applies.

The whole article should be based on independent sources: any time you use a source to back up a statement in the article, you should cite the source. (I mean, you cited your sources in your research project on her, right?) Reliable sources include newspaper articles, magazine articles, articles in scholarly journals, and biographies. The common factor for all those reliable sources is editorial review: somebody is going behind the author of the article/book and fact-checking the information. Conversely, blogs are often not reliable sources, and discussion forums and social media are never reliable sources.

Also, there are limited circumstances where the subject can be used as a source about herself. That's limited to statements of fact about herself. WP:Self-published sources has more information on when you can cite the subject's own writings. —C.Fred (talk) 15:37, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the problem this author is new and my teacher wants me to create a wiki page on whatever information I found on her which isn't a lot. The only information I found on her are on literary web magazines which I tried to add but they got deleted. Lpansini (talk) 15:45, 9 October 2015 (UTC) I edited it a lot today. Can you take a look at it and see if it's better ? Thank you. Lpansini (talk) 16:28, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is not better. Would you like me to move it to Draft:Amy Jo Burns so your instructor can review the content, without as much peril of deletion? Frankly, if you couldn't find much information, that probably means she isn't a notable enough person to have an article. —C.Fred (talk) 16:49, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes can you do that and just tell me how to get to it. Thanks Lpansini (talk) 18:29, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

October 2015[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Amy Jo Burns has been reverted.
Your edit here to Amy Jo Burns was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/amyjoburns?ref_src=twsrc^google%7Ctwcamp^serp%7Ctwgr^author) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:58, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Amy Jo Burns for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Amy Jo Burns is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amy Jo Burns until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Neiltonks (talk) 11:49, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]