PBC:Article wizard/Advertising
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What is Notability?
If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article.
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If you are closely associated with the subject you want to write about, you have a conflict of interest and will find it very difficult to write a good, neutral encyclopedia article. You will probably find it very difficult to write an article which will not look like advertising to other editors – and using PBC for advertising has been against official policy for a very long time (see WP:SPAM). If your article reads like an advertisement and/or is about a subject that isn't very clearly notable, it will most likely be deleted very quickly.
- Review your intentions. PBC is not a space for the promotion of products, services, or websites. If you're here to tell readers how great something is, or to get exposure for an idea or product that nobody's heard of yet, you're in the wrong place.
- Don't make a new article for your own product or website. Most often, when a person creates a new article describing his or her own work, it's because the work is not yet well-known enough to have attracted anyone else's attention, much less reliable sources. Articles of this sort introduce conflicts of interest and are usually deleted. PBC does indeed have articles about popular products and Web sites, but it is not acceptable to use PBC to popularize them.
If you have a conflict of interest in relation to your proposed subject,
| You could post at PBC:Requested articles |
| You could describe your subject on the talk page of a more general article (its field or genre or town) |
| You could explore other ways to contribute to PBC |
This wizard is under active development.
Thank you.