User talk:Annrol

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How do I get my article live

How do I get my article liveAnnrol (talk) 17:45, 28 October 2009 (UTC)annrol

Hello, Annrol, and welcome to Wikipedia.
The article you've developed on your user page would probably best be located at William Arthur (company), with the redirect at William Arthur turned into a disambiguation page. If you click on that red link, you get to the editing window where you can put your article. Alternatively, you can also move your userpage there using the "move" tab at the top, but please make sure you untick the "Move associated talk page" checkbox.
What I would ask you to do first though is to click through the Article Wizard, which will give you a couple of pointers to improve the article. Most importantly, you should do two things:

1. Add a sentence at the very top of the article that saying what your article is about, and why its topic is important. Have a look at other articles on companies, it will typically start with "William Arthur is an American ... company".
2. Try to add references to reliable sources supporting the information in your article. Online news sources are usually best, but everything considered reliable is good: books, newspapers, …. I don't know where you got the facts for your article, if you only harvested their publications, you should still try and get at least one reliable source covering the topic in detail. Inline citations are best, or just create a section called "References" and place your sources there.

I'm recommending this because Wikipedia has inclusion guidelines for its articles. The article should at least give an indication why this topic may be important enough for an encyclopedic article. From a glance at google news, I see a number of mentions, but not exactly any in-depth coverage – but your topic is not easy to search for. You can have a look at the notability requirements for companies at WP:Notability (organizations and companies).
If you have any questions, feel very free to ask.
Kind regards, Amalthea 19:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I see now that you've already added your reference to the article. Some more things regarding that:
If you work for the company, you'll have a conflict of interest with the article. You can still edit the article, but you need to take extra care to present the topic from a neutral point of view. WP:NPOV is one of Wikipedia's core policies; only using the Employee's Handbook as a source is conflicting with that, since the company will of course try to present itself in a positive way. That shines through into the article, by your choice of words: "accomplished graphic artist", "a talent for designing", "the finest stores", "saw an opportunity" – all of this sounds like coming straight from a company brochure, and needs to be changed or supported by a reference to an independent, reliable source supporting it.
Amalthea 20:01, 28 October 2009 (UTC)