User talk:Virtualchicano

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{{helpme}}[edit]

Hello, Virtualchicano! What is it that you need help with? —P^urple ^RA^IN 15:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply. It appears I am whooped.

Virtualchicano 16:06, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you no longer need help? If you do still want help, please let me know what you need help with. If you've figured things out yourself, that's fine too. —P^urple ^RA^IN 16:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chicano Forums[edit]

Hey Daniel. Sorry I took so long to reply. I notice someone has tagged it for deletion--I was hoping to get to you before that happened. The problems I noticed with the article, the ones threatening its existence, are the same ones the people voting in favor of deletion are pointing out.

The biggest one is Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, which strongly discourages people from writing about themselves, their families, their workplaces, or their organizations. You, as the webmaster of ChF, should have someone else write about the forums.

The second big problem is the lack of sources. I was looking at your Chicano Forums (sorry, I wasn't familiar with them. I am just not into forums.) and there was not very much information about the site. For example, nowhere does it say that they are dedicated to Chicano nationalism or an independent Aztlán. If you were to put that somewhere on the "About Us" portion of the site, then maybe we could quote it for the article. But many WP editors don't like using a website as the primary source of information for articles about that site. If there was some news coverage of you by a third party, that would help out your case a lot. But since nobody has covered it (that I have been able to find), people are not considering it notable.

There are a few more stylistic/formatting issues-- for one, we never include external links in the main body of an article. They go in a separate "External links" section. And the use of "We", which has been noted by voting editors, is unacceptable.

I'm sorry I can't help you out more. It seems like you have a decent website, although if I were you I wouldn't link to articles published by La Voz de Aztlán--they are highly looked down on by the members of the Chicano community, and they have no credibility.

Suerte, --Rockero 21:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Aztlan_Flag.jpg)[edit]

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