BecWaters

October 2012

Please stop adding External links that are all part of the same web site. They don't comply with the external links guidelines. 2001:558:6045:A0:391F:B005:179D:8DD9 (talk) 04:36, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

No worries will do. Sorry I didn't realise. I'm hoping to upload the Fasta Pasta logo and aware that I need to make 10 edits in order to do this. Am I able to upload without 10 edits? thanks BecWaters (talk) 04:47, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Have you considered editing other articles? Your focus on just Fasta Pasta is a bit worrying given our conflict of interest guidelines. 2001:558:6045:A0:391F:B005:179D:8DD9 (talk) 04:52, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Ok will do. I just made changes which were corrections, so I thought it'd be ok. thanks for your advice BecWaters (talk) 04:54, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I was wanting to add the new Fasta Pasta logo to the wikipedia page. I see this page has been removed. Will this become visible again? Or do we need to create a new page for Fasta Pasta? thanks BecWaters (talk) 23:59, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Most likely it was deleted as a non-notable business. Read the guidelines WP:NOTABILITY and try again. If you can't show notability, however, it will be deleted again. 2001:558:6045:A0:391F:B005:179D:8DD9 (talk) 00:03, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi. It had been listed on Wikipedia for a couple of years - so I guess had been considered notable. However has just disappeared. I was hoping to add to this previous page, rather than creating a new one. Would it be removed after a couple of years for non-notability? BecWaters (talk) 00:18, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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Yunshui 雲‍水 08:04, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Just a bit of advice

Greetings BecWaters.

It has came to my attention that your Wikipedia focus is primarily on making an article about a business. Please be aware that many accounts have been indefinitely blocked because their only intention for Wikipedia was to make an article about a single business or something else with intention of promotion. I see from your contributions that while most of them are talk page (talk page contributions may be considered to be on the subject of the article you are attempting to make) there are some on an actual article and in addition to that you have also planned the article out in your sandbox before sending it out live, as an editor you seem okay to me but be wary of editors who are not so easily swayed.

The big problem with your article from what I have seen in your conversation with Yunshui is one that many article are deleted because of and it is that the articles do nopt meet the criteria. Please read below for a detailed explanation of the rule that you seemed to miss.

For an article to not be deleted you need to have a few sources that are from websites that are not primiarily focused on the article's subject and are neutral: This means that it is generally okay to have a website with information about your product as a source as long as the website has other focuses (for example for the Fanta article you could not have www.fanta.com as a source becuase its primary focus is on Fanta) and as long as the website does not show to be biased. If a website follows those two rules and is showing information that would go into the article then by all means add that website and the information to the article.

Below I have placed a notice that will attract the attention of an administrator who will be able to confirm this information, I must stress that you are not in trouble as everyone was new once and Wikipedia does have a lot of rules to follow. We are just trying to help you by giving you information that help you become a great editor. If you require more explanation then please contact me on My Talk Page and I will be happy to assist you further. Have a good day :) Your friendly Wikipedia prefect :) - (I can haz Cheezburger?) 16:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Admin: See above information.

Hi. It doesn't have to be an admin to tell you this (but I am one if it makes you happier...). Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. AboutUs is a directory (one of many, just for example). At AboutUs, you can post a profile of a company. So far as I am aware, they don't check to see how notable the company is. We do. Well, we should, but often we take it that if there aren't any reliable sources given, that there aren't any to be found. Read WP:RS to see what reliable independent sources are. They must be both, by the way. You can't have one independent one and one reliable one. That rules out the company site. It may be reliable - a lot aren't - but it's not independent. No blogs - could be written by the company's PR department, who knows? (Actually, not too hard to spot - PR people can't lose the jargon. I'd love to hear one at confession - probably try to have worse sins than anyone else...) What is notability? Here (but not in your dictionary), it means talked about or written about (in RS, of course). Not just mentioned ('also present were Joe Bloggs, Fred Aardvarkmeister and Carly Finkelburger') or having one sentence in an article about something else. Not an 'interview' with the CEO where she spouts what the PR Dept have prepared in answer to a list of questions sent in advance (also easy to spot). Getting the picture? Not every company makes it. We don't give BloggsCo the Makers of Excellent Crinolines an article just because The Saginaw Crinoline Corporation has one. See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. It happens sometimes that someone says 'What about SuperDuper Crinolines?' and we look at it - and oh dear... It had slipped through the net. Can happen after five years. We're not perfect - but like the mills of God which grind exceeding fine but slow, we too get there in the end. OK? Not fair by the standards of the people cast out into non-Wikipedia darkness, but fine by our rules - which are largely made by the community in long and acrimonious discussions/battles/screaming tantrums with quite a lot of quiet common sense as well. Feel free to contact me at my talk page or here if you're still not sure. I work mainly in the deletion /occasional rescue area, so I do know a bit about it. I think I do, anyway, and I only get shouted at by authors of deleted pages rather than by colleagues so it could be that I really do. Peridon (talk) 17:47, 6 November 2012 (UTC)