511:. There is often a wide range of ideas and fields of understanding on Knowledge (XXG), over the definition of publicity, support, promotion, spam, and advertising. Another way to understand the inclusion criteria or recognize an inappropriate promotional article (G11) is to determine if the article has been written or edited in an attempt to manage the public's perception of the subject of the article, or to initiate or enhance the anticipation of an event. In this particular instance, the anticipation of a promotional article in a local newspaper. On Knowledge (XXG), common article subjects that are often written to promote, include persons or groups (for example, political candidates and performing artists), goods and services, organizations and events of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment. Mere publicity, promotion, and advertising need not reference sales or reviews pertaining to the quality or feasibility of the subject of the article. Simply
554:. Is there a difference between someone who makes an article purely to promote a book, and someone who makes an article so that it can contain background information about a book, that will support his PR? Maybe, but it doesn't matter because the essential point is that the book is not currently notable. The purpose of the article is, therefore, irrelevent. Also, while AXmichigan asks for advice on how to improve the article, they need to be aware that in many cases 'improving' the article isn't going to help. In the absence of good quality reliable sources, an article is unlikely to ever pass AfD, and there is nothing much you can do about that, unfortunately.--
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a lot who are. The article was tagged for speedy deletion as spam (but with a posh way of wording it that's built into the template). I declined the speedy as it didn't look wholly promotional which is the real target of that tag, and opened this discussion. It's not a trial. It's a review procedure. It's normally open for seven days, and an administrator will read through it and make a decision. (Won't be me - I'm involved. It's one who hasn't taken part.) You should find us all willing to help and explain. And if the discussion goes against you, we can advise on how to try again with a new improved version.
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us. If they are written for your site, they don't count as independent. Sorry, that's how it is. Go for the press - get your project covered there. They are NEWSpapers - they look at what is new. Happenings and reviews of new things. We record things as they achieve note. Use all the free space providers like LinkedIn and AboutUs (if you aren't already...). But, as with many people, I fear you mistook the purpose of
Knowledge (XXG). We aren't against you - I'm sure all the participants here would join me in wishing you luck and success in an interesting project. But I feel that's all we can do here.
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to write the article, but it is what they asked for so I immediately wrote it to maximize my chances. As I'm trying my best to spread this book as far as I can, please let me know how I can improve the article and what I need to do to remove this article for deletion consideration. I appreciate your help.
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Peridon, thank you for the response--I just posted on Theodolite's wall. This Knowledge (XXG) article was created as a precursor to give background before having the local newspaper article, as well as the future news articles written about the book. I'm not sure if it was a requirement for them
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Hi it's Manu again. I'm not trying to do anything malicious, so I don't get it. I spent over 3 years working on a book that I have released for free. It took a lot of time to write, edit, and add allthe multimedia effects. I thought the point of
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The article was not meant to spread the book, it was meant to only give background information (I personally am trying to spread my friends' plight). Once again I'm not trying to advertise anything. At this point I give up, just delete the article if you wish. Thank you for making me give up hope.
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I created the Verse the World page by request from the readers of the book. My name is Manu (Singh) and I wrote the
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