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Amalthea
22:56, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a journalism major and have been wanting to create an article for a few months now. However, I am afraid it will not "stick". I heard articles get deleted very fast. Can you help me learn the ropes so I can have my article stay strong and untouched? I don't want to put all this time and effort for it to disappear! :) Thank you.
-Alice —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alicemaguire ( talk • contribs) 22:14, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I want to write my first article on Shawn Sedlacek. I have always been very into the Event Production world. (ever since I was 8 years old I told my parents I wanted to plan parties and be a writer...so why not do both?) Anyways, I have heard and researched a lot about Shawn. He started a company at a very young age and now plans mega events. I saw an article about him in the Best Events magazine and have been looking into him ever since. I noticed a lot of in the limelight entrepreneurs have wikipedia articles and in my earlier stage of looking into how he built his company (as it is something I aspire to do), I had come to wikipedia hoping to get further insight on who he is, where he came from, etc. and there was nothing. Now that I have found a lot of information on him, I would love to make an article about him so that others who are interested in that world can easily access some information on him and not have to do the searching I did.
Thank you so much for your quick response! I look forward to learning more about wikipedia and working through this with you! Thank you again, Alicemaguire ( talk) 00:07, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Here are a links to any sources I found online regarding his company and progress. Other information I found was in magazines or interviews. Im glad you think it sounds like a valid article, that is great news! because I believe it is too :)
Hopefully some/most are sufficient? Thank you for your help, it's very appreciated. Alicemaguire ( talk) 20:03, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Ah disappointing, but understandable. How many credible sources do I need bare minimum? cause now I'm down to three...is that not a sufficient amount? Also, once again thank you so much for your help and going through this with me. This guidance is unbelievably helpful. Do you think an article on Shawn may still be valid? :/ :)
Alzarian- do not apologize for joining in! the more help and opinion I get the better! I appreciate every piece of advice I am getting. You make a valid point about forming an article about the company. A huge positive is the fact that more articles are about the company itself. But as I stated in the beginning of this thread, I have done so much digging into the life of Shawn. I would want to use that. If writing on the company itself, would it be unorthodox to have background on the founder (Shawn) as a chunk of the article? ..with this possibility I could still include all my information on who he is, how he came to be, etc. ..I mean that correlates with how the company grew..?
Once Again, Thank you both! and if anyone else is reading this, feel free to throw out ideas! I am excited for where this article can go! And hopefully I can still accomplish my original hope of an article about this man who has a company that has inspired me to one day do something along the same lines. As an aspiring writer this could not be a more exciting topic for me as my first official wikipedia article, as it is what motivated me to want to make one months ago when (to my shock) found no article about him on wikipedia. Creating an article for him/his company would be great for others looking into his world as I was. Alicemaguire ( talk) 16:40, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Okay,first of all, thank you for creating my userpage and now I have taken the first step! I put the article I had been creating on a word document into the userpage. I tried to edit it with bolds and big words like I have seen on other wikipedia pages. I tried the "#" before the reference links but they were all numbered as "1" so I manually just put in 1,2,3. There is so much technical things to still learn! I know we discussed changing my angle to the company, which is still possible, but here is my original short article on Sedlacek that I had hoped for. Let me know if you think it could work with the original plan. If not, I must try more and do more research! :/ :) Oh, and I understand what you said about the difficulty on writing an article on a living person due to reliability and neutrality. However, I am just stated facts I have dug up, so that is neutral, is it not? If so, at least thats one down out of the two negatives? haha ...I will keep looking for articles such as a biography in newspapers, but if none exist? does that mean I must change to the company because an article on him alone will not have enough reference links? Feel free to critic me away! I want this to work :) Thank you again! Really appreciate it! Alicemaguire ( talk) 16:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Opps I had a few typos/bad grammar in that message! Let me correct..."I am just stating (not stated) facts I dug up"..."There are so many technical technical things to still learn! ..not there is so much" Sorry :) Alicemaguire ( talk) 16:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much for all this information and guidance! Sorry I have been absent the past few days, life got very busy! However, I think I have decided I am going to change my whole angle. I will do as suggested and create an article on the company. It seems that will be much easier? So I may just ignore my first article/userpage and I am going to do some digging for information and start sort of from scratch. So it may take a few days or week or so, I'm not really sure. However, once I get new/more information and a new article going, may I come back here and show you all what I have got/where I am headed?? I would love to continue working through my first article with you (though now a different article, kind of) It would be great to make this one work and continue to get help, this way I can finally get an article up! :) As I say each time, THANK YOU!! SO APPRECIATED!! I feel like we are making so much progress! Alicemaguire ( talk) 23:32, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh, and also...I like this "request feedback" page...Should I try seeing if the article would survive as is, with 3 sources? or that is probably very unlikely and a waste of time? At this point, I dont want to look for more links for it because I want to look into finding more links about the company, as that will be my new article. I would only try the feedback page if the article with just those 3 sources had a chance. But Im guessing you will see dont bother, I just figured I would ask :) 128.223.222.66 ( talk) 23:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Opps, I dont know why it did not sign as my name but my IP address. strange. anyways, here we go: Alicemaguire ( talk) 23:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Welcome!
Hello, Alicemaguire, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
discussion pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}}
before the question. Again, welcome!
Amalthea
22:56, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a journalism major and have been wanting to create an article for a few months now. However, I am afraid it will not "stick". I heard articles get deleted very fast. Can you help me learn the ropes so I can have my article stay strong and untouched? I don't want to put all this time and effort for it to disappear! :) Thank you.
-Alice —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alicemaguire ( talk • contribs) 22:14, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I want to write my first article on Shawn Sedlacek. I have always been very into the Event Production world. (ever since I was 8 years old I told my parents I wanted to plan parties and be a writer...so why not do both?) Anyways, I have heard and researched a lot about Shawn. He started a company at a very young age and now plans mega events. I saw an article about him in the Best Events magazine and have been looking into him ever since. I noticed a lot of in the limelight entrepreneurs have wikipedia articles and in my earlier stage of looking into how he built his company (as it is something I aspire to do), I had come to wikipedia hoping to get further insight on who he is, where he came from, etc. and there was nothing. Now that I have found a lot of information on him, I would love to make an article about him so that others who are interested in that world can easily access some information on him and not have to do the searching I did.
Thank you so much for your quick response! I look forward to learning more about wikipedia and working through this with you! Thank you again, Alicemaguire ( talk) 00:07, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Here are a links to any sources I found online regarding his company and progress. Other information I found was in magazines or interviews. Im glad you think it sounds like a valid article, that is great news! because I believe it is too :)
Hopefully some/most are sufficient? Thank you for your help, it's very appreciated. Alicemaguire ( talk) 20:03, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Ah disappointing, but understandable. How many credible sources do I need bare minimum? cause now I'm down to three...is that not a sufficient amount? Also, once again thank you so much for your help and going through this with me. This guidance is unbelievably helpful. Do you think an article on Shawn may still be valid? :/ :)
Alzarian- do not apologize for joining in! the more help and opinion I get the better! I appreciate every piece of advice I am getting. You make a valid point about forming an article about the company. A huge positive is the fact that more articles are about the company itself. But as I stated in the beginning of this thread, I have done so much digging into the life of Shawn. I would want to use that. If writing on the company itself, would it be unorthodox to have background on the founder (Shawn) as a chunk of the article? ..with this possibility I could still include all my information on who he is, how he came to be, etc. ..I mean that correlates with how the company grew..?
Once Again, Thank you both! and if anyone else is reading this, feel free to throw out ideas! I am excited for where this article can go! And hopefully I can still accomplish my original hope of an article about this man who has a company that has inspired me to one day do something along the same lines. As an aspiring writer this could not be a more exciting topic for me as my first official wikipedia article, as it is what motivated me to want to make one months ago when (to my shock) found no article about him on wikipedia. Creating an article for him/his company would be great for others looking into his world as I was. Alicemaguire ( talk) 16:40, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Okay,first of all, thank you for creating my userpage and now I have taken the first step! I put the article I had been creating on a word document into the userpage. I tried to edit it with bolds and big words like I have seen on other wikipedia pages. I tried the "#" before the reference links but they were all numbered as "1" so I manually just put in 1,2,3. There is so much technical things to still learn! I know we discussed changing my angle to the company, which is still possible, but here is my original short article on Sedlacek that I had hoped for. Let me know if you think it could work with the original plan. If not, I must try more and do more research! :/ :) Oh, and I understand what you said about the difficulty on writing an article on a living person due to reliability and neutrality. However, I am just stated facts I have dug up, so that is neutral, is it not? If so, at least thats one down out of the two negatives? haha ...I will keep looking for articles such as a biography in newspapers, but if none exist? does that mean I must change to the company because an article on him alone will not have enough reference links? Feel free to critic me away! I want this to work :) Thank you again! Really appreciate it! Alicemaguire ( talk) 16:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Opps I had a few typos/bad grammar in that message! Let me correct..."I am just stating (not stated) facts I dug up"..."There are so many technical technical things to still learn! ..not there is so much" Sorry :) Alicemaguire ( talk) 16:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much for all this information and guidance! Sorry I have been absent the past few days, life got very busy! However, I think I have decided I am going to change my whole angle. I will do as suggested and create an article on the company. It seems that will be much easier? So I may just ignore my first article/userpage and I am going to do some digging for information and start sort of from scratch. So it may take a few days or week or so, I'm not really sure. However, once I get new/more information and a new article going, may I come back here and show you all what I have got/where I am headed?? I would love to continue working through my first article with you (though now a different article, kind of) It would be great to make this one work and continue to get help, this way I can finally get an article up! :) As I say each time, THANK YOU!! SO APPRECIATED!! I feel like we are making so much progress! Alicemaguire ( talk) 23:32, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh, and also...I like this "request feedback" page...Should I try seeing if the article would survive as is, with 3 sources? or that is probably very unlikely and a waste of time? At this point, I dont want to look for more links for it because I want to look into finding more links about the company, as that will be my new article. I would only try the feedback page if the article with just those 3 sources had a chance. But Im guessing you will see dont bother, I just figured I would ask :) 128.223.222.66 ( talk) 23:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Opps, I dont know why it did not sign as my name but my IP address. strange. anyways, here we go: Alicemaguire ( talk) 23:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)