User talk:Sarahgeorge

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Sarahgeorge, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Kukini 04:51, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Antonella Gambotto-Burke

According to Google, Sarah George is the name of Antonella Gambotto-Burke's publicist. If that's you, you need to be very careful in respect of neutrality. Several of your contributions appear to fall well below the standards of neutrality we expect. Just zis Guy you know? 11:08, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Sarah, here is some bedtime reading for you :-)

  • WP:MOS is our manual of style. If your recent contributions had conformed better to this and to WP:NPOV I think there would be less of a problem, but what do I know?
  • WP:VAIN is our guideline on writing about yourself or your enterprise. A lot of us take this one fairly seriously.
  • WP:NPOV is non-negotiable policy. Put simply, Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a storefront (you can see some of the other things it's not at WP:NOT). Book publishers' summaries and synopses are rarely appropriate.
  • WP:EL is the policy on external links; if a book is published and has an ISBN number you can just type "ISBN 12345678" and the software will automagically link it in the correct format (like it did just there). We do not have links to individual booksellers (*cough*Amazon) nor do we typically link to pages within a subject's site where they are selling their wares, we tend to link to the root and leave it o the reader.
  • WP:V and WP:RS define the types of information which can be included. You might know that a certain person is the greatest author since Chaucer, but unless you can provide a citation from a scholarly work to that effect it's best not to say so in the article... You may know that their contribution to a given magazine was significant, but iunless you can cite a reputable secondary source which says that, we can't say so in the article. Yes, this is flouted all the time, but if you are associated with the subject you can expect to get called on it, so get your ducks in a row first. Citing sources is a whole different ballgame, see WP:CITE for the guidance.
  • If an author has written a few minor works and one or two major ones, it's normal to avoid havng separate articles for the minor ones. We don't have a specific guideline here, the nearest equivalent would be the guidelines on music where by consensus we include articles on groups and artists who have achieved significant external notice; for indivdual albums and singles wihch have made high positions in the charts, and not for individual songs or lesser albums, which tend to be listed in the artist's biography or maybe in a single article on minor works of that artist.
  • As a rule it's best always to leave an edit summary, to remain calm, and to sign all talk page comments with four tildes (~~~~) which automagically timestamps and signs the contribution. When making changes, it's good to go to the Talk page with supporting data.

Feel free to ask questions on my Talk page or the helpdesk and I'll reply to your email as well. And do please put some info about yourself on your User page, people will be much less supicious if you are up-front. I have no reason to doubt your good intentions (we always try to assume good faith), but not everyone is a natural Mary Poppins so do please make it easier for us :-) Just zis Guy you know? 14:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Greg coffey

A tag has been placed on Greg coffey requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Rwiggum (Talk/Contrib) 04:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)