User talk:Indywood

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Indywood article
As you probably noticed, your article Indywood project was deleted as a non-quote article. It would be better to start with a Wikipedia article instead, as that is the place for encyclopedia (not quote) articles. However, you need to be aware of the problem of conflict of interest. In general, Wikipedia does not allow editors involved in an activity to create articles or edit them because they are likely to introduce bias on the subject. (The philosophy is that any subject that is sufficiently notable for Wikipedia will have people among its 1 million plus editors willing to write about it.) It is conceivable that you may be able to establish an article, but you should be prepared for heavy criticism and likely deletion.

If you wish to attempt this uphill battle, you should at the very least do the following:


 * Carefully read w:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
 * Clearly state your affliation with the project on the user page of the username that you use to edit. (I would assume this would be w:User:Indywood.)
 * Choose what you believe to be the most notable aspect of this work. Is it "Indywood Films", "The Indywood Project", or something else? It is likely you will only be able to justify (at most) a single article, so pick a title that best represents this effort. (Please be sure to use capitals for proper nouns, as I have.)
 * Assemble plenty of third-party evidence from reliable sources (not from your website!) that this project is notable in the general English-speaking world. This is absolutely essential to prevent summary deletion of your article. Some reliable sources might include articles about Indywood (not just mentioning it in passing) in well-known publications like The Times or in news reports from the BBC or elsewhere. (I'd give you a more useful list, but I'm not conversant with UK publications or news agencies. One rule of thumb about source usefulness is if it has its own Wikipedia article.) For your genre, listing in the Internet Movie Database is probably essential, preferably with a number of films also listed. Without such third-party confirmation, editors have no way to differentiate your company from something an energetic auteur with a good web designer threw together in his/her basement.
 * Accept that having a Wikipedia article means that any negative information that gets into print or TV will be included as well, and any attempts to remove negative stuff while adding positive stuff will likely get you blocked for failure to follow Neutral point of view, especially when you have a conflict of interest.

Understand that there will be many editors who will find this apparent self-promotion intolerable. You may not succeed in making your case, even if you can assemble rock-solid evidence that your project is well-known. But if you don't do your homework first, you will almost certainly fail. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)