User talk:Nadacevia

Hello Nadacevia! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 08:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply] Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Via Foundation, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -

I'm in the process of trying to make the Via Foundation and Via Bona Awards articles you flagged more neutral in tone. If you have any advice on how I can better accomplish this, please let me know!

(After learning how to do so!) I have listed references on the pages, but I am having a hard time finding source material in English (as there just isn't very much). This is actually one of the main reasons that I've written these articles - to provide some information in English about at least one nonprofit organization in the Czech Republic and its activities. I hope to write more entries about other Czech NGOs in the future but can anticipate that I will run into the same COI problems.

Also, I'm not sure how I might "prove" why these articles are important. For example, the Via Bona Awards do not have much source material as this is a cultural difference in the Czech Republic - Czech media outlets typically refuse to write about corporate philanthropy in any way as they see this as free advertising for the corporations.

Again, any help or advice you may offer is really appreciated. Thank you! --Nadacevia 11:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You actually don't have to use English references, if you don't have any English sources - they're just preferred. You can also use translations, or machine translations, of foreign language documents if you want. Typically, in order to show that the topic of an article is notable, you just have to find some reliable sources which talk about the subject. The fact that people are talking about the subject in a news, business, or scholarly setting is typically enough to show that a subject is notable. So, if you're having trouble finding sources in the Czech press, try looking through business magazines and things like that - those are also acceptable sources, and I reckon they probably won't have the same philosophy as the normal press. Hope this helps! --Haemo 21:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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