User talk:Laberintosingeniosos
This is the English Wikipedia - do not create pages fully in another language. Thewtfchronicles (talk) 20:40, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
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Por favor, no contribuya con textos en español a la Wikipedia en inglés. En cambio, sus contribuciones a la Wikipedia en español, serán muy bienvenidas.
Please do not contribute text in Spanish to English Wikipedia. Your contributions are more than welcome at Spanish Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 20:44, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Xavier diaz-latorre
A tag has been placed on Xavier diaz-latorre, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a foreign language article that was copied and pasted from another Wikimedia project, or was transwikied out to another project. The article seems to have been copied from or transwikied to es:Xavier diaz-latorre. Please see Wikipedia:Translation to learn about requests for, and coordination of, translations from foreign-language Wikipedias into English.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on Talk:Xavier diaz-latorre. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 20:44, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Your article Xavier Diaz-Latorre
The deletion notice placed on your page was because it seemed to have been copied from the Spanish Wikipedia: copying like that is not allowed because it is necessary to keep track of the contributions of every author. (I realise that you probably wrote the Spanish version, but we do not know that). I have fixed that problem by adding a template to the article talk page which refers back to the Spanish version.
However I have added three "maintenance templates" to the article to indicate that it needs further work; these may also encourage other editors to come and help to improve it. (You will understand that no Wikipedia article is owned by any author, certainly not by its subject: at the bottom of every edit screen is the warning "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.") Please do not remove these templates unless the issues they raise have been addressed.
First: notability. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and does not have articles about everything or everybody. The criterion for a subject is notability, which is used in a specific sense - it is not a matter of subjective opinion, it is a question of whether the subject has received "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". The criteria are explained in more detail at Notability (people) and (for musicians) WP:MUSICBIO.
Second: independent references. This links with the notability question. Everything in Wikipedia needs to be verifiable from reliable sources. Myspace, Facebook and your own website are not considered reliable because there is no check on what you write there. Statements like "awarded several international performance prizes" and "is a member of renowned orchestras and chamber groups" and "has received excellent reviews in the media" need to be backed by citations to published sources, or they may be challenged and removed. Adding verifiable independent references to your achievements is the best way to establish notability. You should be particularly careful about using words like "renowned" and "excellent" unless they are backed up by the sources - see the guideline on peacock terms.
Third: autobiography. Writing Wikipedia articles about yourself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained here. This means that because of your conflict of interest the article's claims, and their verifiability, are likely to attract particular attention from other editors.
I am afraid you may be feeling that submitting an article to Wikipedia is more difficult than you expected; but the only reason that Wikipedia remains a useful encyclopedia rather than a sort of upmarket Myspace is that it has standards and tries to maintain them. The links in the Welcome paragraph above will tell you more.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:48, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry not to reply to your second message today - I hope tomorrow, definitely by Tuesday. JohnCD (talk) 22:54, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
How to add references
...is explained at WP:CITE but it's simpler to show by example: I have added one to the article for you, and added the code {{reflist}} at the bottom which causes all the articles to display there. The format is:
<ref>[http://www.cduniverse.com/classical.asp?performer=Xavier+Diaz-Latorre cduniverse.com]</ref>
i.e., within the single square brackets, the full url, one space, then the text you want to show. Place that in the text just after the statement it references, and it will be added to the reference list at the bottom. What is needed particularly is references from sources independent of you - reviews, announcements of your prizes, etc.
Copyright
I'm afraid I have found another problem. The text of your article is almost identical with that on your website. As with the authorship of your Spanish article, I don't doubt that you are the author and own the copyright, but Wikipedia has no way of knowing that, and copyright is a very sensitive legal issue; also, releasing text to Wikipedia is more than just giving permission to reproduce, it means irrevocably granting permission to anyone to recopy, modify, and use for any purpose. If you want to release the material, what you need to do is explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Otherwise, any user, or one of our automatic systems, may flag the text as a copyright violation.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:15, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Nomination of Xavier Diaz-Latorre for deletion
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xavier Diaz-Latorre until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.