Talk:Gao XingJian's Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

HOW DO YOU EDIT SOMETHING TO MAKE IT ACCEPTABLE FOR WIKIPEDIA SO THAT THEY WILL NOT DELETE IT? I CLEARLY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WIKIPEDIA WORKS!!!!! ANY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED!!! THANK YOU MarciaSaylors2 (talk) 04:52, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * You must make sure that your article does not read like it's been written as a school report, but rather as an encvyclopedia article. The first step would be to assert that the play meets the general notability guideline. If it doesn't then you must choose another subject, one that does. The second step would be to cite your sources. Any personal opinion or personal analysis is prohibited, no exceptions, regardless of what your teacher asked of you. I'm saying this so that I won't have to find you writing a 200-page report which will get deleted in less than a minute after it is posted.


 * For more information, please take a look at the five pillars, and in particular the first one, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 05:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I have made a couple of revisions including adding some information on the author Gao XingJian. It is rather hard to make the article not sound like a school project when the way the project was assigned lends itself to having the article sound like a paper. There are very few ways to discuss the collection of short stories in relation to the theater of the absurd without it sounding like a paper. If the article was like an encyclopedia I wouldn't have been able to discuss the short stories in relation to the topic. I doubt that I will be submitting anything else to wikipedia again after this dilemma, my first and last article submitted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarciaSaylors2 (talk • contribs) 05:21, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I declined the proposed deletion due to Marcia Saylors' objections. However, the article could still be objected via a discussion at Articles for deletion if someone happens to nominate it there. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 15:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I turned the page into a redirect. However, if the redirecting is undone, I will take this to AfD. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 04:03, 23 April 2010 (UTC)