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Chinese Dream

Hi. I don't think you understand what I meant by references. Have a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. You can still create the article but it must have these. Deb (talk) 07:56, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Bitcoin

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Hi, I responded to your question (but don't have the answer) on the Help:Gallery tag talk page. -Mindfrieze (talk) 15:29, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for message. AS it happens, the last three people to edit this, including the speedy deletion nominator, were all admins, so I'm not alone in feeling that the article was blatantly promotional and probably involved undeclared paid editing, which is not permitted. I deleted the article because

• it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation or company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. References should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls. Most of the text was completely unreferenced, and of the three references that were there, one is the company itself, one appears to be non-existent now, and the third gives the message 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons (presumably because I live in the EU and the content breached EU data protection laws), so I don't know what it says. Effectively then, no independent verifiable references that I can see.
• The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

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Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, turnover or profits , not just that they sell onion rings

• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. There is clear evidence of company input, including a sprinkling of TM symbols {it's not our job to protect their trademarks) and the founder is referred to throughout as "Sally", encyclopaedic and suggesting a lack of neutrality. Examples of unsourced or self-sourced claims presented as fact include: Sally was the one who coined the final spelling and pronunciation... grew rapidly during the 1980s... one of the staple foods at Memorial Stadium, Lincoln... are popular with sports fans

The text appears not to be copyright, and I've seen worse, so I'm prepared in principle to sandbox it for you. Please read the following carefully

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• Your comments on my talk page included quotes and comments about the restaurant. Note that any article should not include any sort of review of the restaurant, we need facts, not opinions.
• Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources.

• You will need to decide whether to have a separate article, or add to the existing Runza article with a redirect.

If you still wish to proceed, let me know and I'll recreate in a user sub-page for you

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Accreditation warnings

Thanks for adding current accreditation warnings to several articles about US colleges and universities. When I've done that, I've often added a brief note in the lede as it seems like a critical detail; when I've added that kind of note, I've also explicitly worded so it's clear that the institution is still accredited. Additionally, you may find it more helpful to link to Higher education accreditation in the United States in these articles instead of Educational accreditation as it's a more specific, helpful link for readers. ElKevbo (talk) 23:39, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

A brief note in the lede? Ooh, that's spicy. Didn't think we could get away with something like that. I may take you up on it.

I was sort of wondering if it should be in the infobox too.

Thanks for feedback on the wikilink. Lordgilman (talk) 23:43, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

My rationale has always been that a serious threat to institutional accreditation - a formal warning or, worse, show cause status - is an existential threat to the institution that rises to the level of a brief mention in the lede. I think that in most cases I've only included one sentence in the lede with further details left for the body of the article.

I haven't made those edits very often recently because I worry about inconsistency - these accreditation actions don't seem to be consistently reported in one place and I've never put in the time to make sense of the websites of all of the institutional accreditors and then spend time to visit them regularly for updates. ElKevbo (talk) 23:59, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

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