User talk:Andrea.machiavelli
March 2008
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This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of MyFind, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.improve-your-office.com/help.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.
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Andrea.machiavelli (talk) 13:54, 2 September 2008 (UTC) Hi, how can I get my article published? Indeed it's nearly a copy of http://www.improve-your-office.com/help.htm page but I'm its author, I have also added a note at the top of it. I understand it was ads-like, in fact I was trying to modify it but it's not clear to me the motivation "web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant": I described why it can be useful... well, maybe it's not "important" but I think it has the same dignity and characteristics of OpenKM or Nuxeo... which I used as models
Many Thanks
Andrea
- Good question - here's one for you. This MyFind software you're trying to write an article (for WP) about - is it your software? Did you create it?
- If so, then that's the problem right there... people are hardly ever objective about their own work, and Wikipedia tries to be as objective as possible. It does look like interesting software, and perhaps it's popular enough or novel enough to be worth including in an encyclopedia. With respect, the author of the software is not the best person to make that decision. (Same as if I wrote an article describing a book I'd written - it may be a good book, but I'm going to be very biased in what I say about it even though it may all be true.)
- So to get "your article" published, wait for the subject (this software) to be "notable", and then someone else will (eventually) write an article about it. If you want to speed it up, you might suggest specific ways that it's innovative or especially useful. Do you know of anyone else who's written a review of it? How many people use it? The article got deleted not because of the copyvio, but because it didn't indicate any reason why the software is important enough that an encyclopedia should talk about it. (There's a LOT of software out there... not even the useful stuff is necessarily "article-worthy".)
- Finally, any time you write (or even extensively contribute!) to an article about your non-WP work, some people are going to assume that you're just trying to advertise it.