User talk:Strikinginsideangola
new unsuccessful article in wikipedia: Striking inside Angola with 32 Battalion (book)[edit]
The reply was at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Striking_inside_Angola_with_32_Battalion_(Book)
I need to get this going as this article serves as a link to a number of other important articles.
Further, by accepting my article, I can start with a building process to expand the article and include photo material and very important maps (historical). The research had already been done and was already published by a respectable international publisher.
If I can not get started and I have no guarantee that my article shall be published, I may have wasted my time and rather go to another platform.
Please advise.
Marius Scheepers
mariusscheepers@irodo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Strikinginsideangola (talk • contribs) 08:09, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
- Hello Marius,
- I fear that I - not any of the other newpage checkers - can ever guarantee that an article can or cannot be published. Whether or not an article is acceptable depends on various policies set for article content, and these are all dependent on the content of the article. In other words: I can only read an article and note the issues i see, and it is up to the writer to see if they can resolve them. Having said that - there are a few basic criteria that any article must pass, and after that the issues tend to be "details" rather then being "show-stoppers". So below is a short list that you can use to evaluate if your article would be capable of passing:
- : For any subject to be on Wikipedia, it needs to pass some criteria before inclusion itself is warranted. One of the most basic policies is that the subject must be notable, or important enough to be included. The criteria for books are listed at WP:NBOOK. There is also the general notability guideline which states that if a subject has been covered in multiple reliable sources it is presumed notable.
- Note that this claim to ntability must be backed up by reliable sources, which are mandatory in any article as they are used to back up the content that was written.
- Those two issues above (Notability and verifiability) tend to be the only issues that are immutable by any other changes in the article. Promotional language, non neutral tone and other common decline issues can all be resolved with a rewrite of (part of) the article, but notability and verifiability are either present, or they are not. If the article can pass those two criteria it has a (very) good change to be accepted.
- With kind regards, Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 17:41, 22 July 2012 (UTC)