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Managing a conflict of interest

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Information icon Hello, C5Roller. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

  • avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Redalert2fan (talk) 08:39, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Rolling Home (Book)

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A tag has been placed on Rolling Home (Book), requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.  GILO   A&E⇑  21:54, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Rolling Home (Book)

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Rolling Home (Book), requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.  GILO   A&E⇑  22:20, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Book Cover for Rolling Home.jpg

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Nomination of Rolling Home (Book) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rolling Home (Book) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rolling Home (Book) 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. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:33, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Book notability

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Hi! I wanted to explain why the book was nominated for deletion. Ultimately it's because it doesn't pass notability guidelines for books (WP:NBOOK) which can be fairly strict for new and indie books to pass. What's needed for a book to pass NBOOK is coverage such as reviews and articles in independent, reliable sources. Local coverage tends to be greatly depreciated on Wikipedia since local papers are more likely to cover a local author. I don't always agree with that, but it's a very common line of thought on Wikipedia. The coverage should also not be in self-published sources like blogs. E-commerce sites like Amazon and social media platforms like Goodreads aren't usable either. Here's a guide to notability for books that should be helpful. I won't lie, however - as an independently released book it's going to be extremely difficult to get the needed coverage to pass NBOOK. Not impossible, mind you, just harder.

Now all of that said, here's what I recommend in general for getting your book talked about:

  • Go to Goodreads. You can't use that site as a source, but you can use it to get readers by holding a giveaway through the site. To win a copy the users will have to put your book on their "to read" list. It's not a guarantee that they'll pick it up, but the effort that they will have to put into becoming eligible will make them look over the work more than they may otherwise do if they saw it pop up randomly on Amazon. Generally most social media platforms for books like LibraryThing will offer this, but Goodreads always seems to be the most visible. (I'd offer this on as many platforms as you can, though.)
  • Reach out to book bloggers. Like Goodreads, you can't use them as sources but word of mouth is very key and a book that gains a lot of attention in the book blogging world can attract the attention of more mainstream press and review outlets. Avoid any paid review service like the plague. They give positive reviews (the vast majority do) but they kind of tend to discredit the author some since they're also pretty obvious. Instead go for services like Netgalley and Edelweiss. I'm not sure what they charge, but what they do is distribute electronic copies of your book to bloggers and reviewers. The risk of someone not reviewing your book is minimal since a lot of these sites tend to be less likely to give out review copies if the person doesn't follow through on their end.
  • Be very careful of awards. This isn't really a tip on how to get your book looked at as much as it's a warning about predatory award scams. Writer Beware has a lot on this here and here. Read over the comments as well. Basically, there are a lot of places out there that will get you to enter their contests in order to sell you something or to charge an exorbitant fee to submit your work. They will make the award seem really exclusive and prestigious... when in actuality everyone gets a prize or the rate of winning is so high that the prize is essentially meaningless. There are a lot of writers, both newbies and experienced ones, that fall for these. There's an article that goes over this on here a bit as well at vanity award.

I hope all of this helps! ReaderofthePack (｡◕‿◕｡) 21:43, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Book Cover for Rolling Home.jpg

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