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00:45:12, 16 August 2016 review of submission by Virksaite

• Virksaite (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Intelligence of corvids (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

00:45:12, 16 August 2016 review of submission by {{SUBST:VIRKSAITE}}

First, you already asked at the Teahouse, and were given a detailed critique. Your article is not in the formal neutral tone of an encyclopedic article. Second, after your draft was declined twice, you deleted the record of the decline. AFC decline notices state that they should not be removed. They remain as part of the history of the draft, and are removed by a script when the draft is accepted. Maybe you didn't notice that you are not supposed to remove the decline notices. Now you know. Do not remove AFC decline notices, and just asking the same question in multiple places until you get the answer that you want doesn't help, and may be considered forum shopping. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:15, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

11:46:26, 16 August 2016 review of submission by Pichiciago

• Pichiciago (talk · contribs)

Is CNN considered a reliable source? Our company was covered by a 15-minute segment on CNN Intermational, I thought this would count as notability. Yet the page has been refused. What else can we offer ? We have been published in plenty of German-language publications, do those count? (EDIT: btw we did not solicit any coverage on CNN - they came to us).

Pichiciago (talk) 11:46, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi Pichiciago. CNN is certainly considered a reliable source. If the German publications you mentioned fulfill our criteria for a reliable source, they can count towards establishing notability too – the language doesn't matter.

However, I noticed that in your draft you only cited four sources and only two of them were independent of the company. You can't expect the your reviewer to know take into account sources you haven't cited! Moreover, the two independent sources you mentioned don't actually mention the company, they're about a project it participated in. If a company is notable enough for inclusion in the encyclopaedia there should be substantial information about the company in multiple, independent reliable sources.

More seriously, you said "our company": according to our conflict of interest policy editors are strongly discouraged from editing articles in which they have a financial conflict of interest, include an article about your employer. I'd advise you not to continue working on the draft. Wikipedia is not a promotional vehicle; if your company is notable, somebody will write an article about it in time. Joe Roe (talk) 12:12, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

20:08:20, 16 August 2016 review of draft by Tpalum24

• Tpalum24 (talk · contribs)
  • User:Tpalum24/sandbox/Puronics, Inc. (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I have submitted a page for review but I realized i submitted a sandbox page from my user instead of a draft for the page. This is my first time making a page and I was wondering if there is anything I can do to change this or if it is something that people who are reviewing will see quickly and change. I can't move it out of the sandbox because my user is too new and I couldn't understand if I could do anything or not from the help pages.

Thanks

Tpalum24 (talk) 20:08, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi Tpalum24. That's no problem at all, it happens quite often. I've moved your draft to Draft:Puronics, Inc.. Joe Roe (talk) 20:26, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tpalum24 (talk • contribs) 21:13, 16 August 2016 (UTC)