User:DGG/paragraphs/deletion messages

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Speedy Patrol

 * Since the page has already been deleted, please feel free to create a new one following the above requirements. If there is a problem doing this, please contact the above editor on his talk page, or me on mine.


 * The main problem is that it needs references to sources which have talked about your work. If you have questions about it, please fell free to contact the above editor on his talk page or me on mine.


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 * I'm sorry, but articles about your accomplishments and biography will have to wait until you become famous, as demonstrated by magazine articles or other reliable sources referring to you and your work. That's the way things work here, so it's been necessary to delete the page on ___. But we'd be glad for you to contribute on things that are already notable:
 * The usual advice is to start not be writing new articles, but by fixing things and then adding sources to articles that interest you, and once you see more carefully how things go here, then to do articles from scratch, developing it first off line, for there is an unfortunate dislike of very short articles, and unfinished articles often get deleted. See the help for starting a new page
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Process

 * First, some preliminaries. Deleting an article by the speedy deletion process is normally a two-step procedure.. Any editor at WP can nominate an article for deletion if it seems to fall within the provisions, and then a second person--one of the 1000 or so people called administrators--decides if it ought to be deleted. In this case, I marked it, and ____ deleted it. I am an administrator myself, and have the ability to delete in a single step, but I do not do that unless the article is outrageously absurd. Thus two separate administrators both agreed that the article should be deleted--which I consider a very wise arrangement protecting against out-of-line decisions on the part of a single administrator. About 200 articles a day are deleted in this manner.

Corporate
"Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service, or person and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company, product, group, service, or person as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion; an article that is blatant advertising should have inappropriate content as well" from WP:CSD provision A11. Alternatively, the information making it suitable for an encyclopedia could consist or two or more published references talking in a substantial way about the work of the company. They must be published in some reliable source, print or web, but not a blog, and must be in sources completely independent of your company, such as a newspaper or trade magazine. It must be substantial, not a paragraph or two or a listing in a general article.
 * It was deleted under the provision
 * So, the article gives the name of the company and the place it operates & the number of staff the names of the principal staff members & the general line of business.
 * This is similar to an advertising notice that one would place in the telephone directory--it says you are an established company and the service you engage it. It exclusively serves to call attention to your company and to promote it, in the words of the rule. It would need to be completely rewritten in order to be this or any other encyclopedia. As you say, it only stated facts, but the facts were not suitable for an encyclopedia article.
 * It also falls under another provision "Unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject."  rule A7

In all this, there is no implication that the company is unimportant--just that the function of wikipedia is that of an encyclopedia, not a directory. If you decide to re-create the article in more substantial form, you will have the problem that the person checking may think it just a re-creation of the same content; the thing to do is to put the proposed text on your talk page, and then ask at WP:Deletion Review for it to be restored. Previous to that, you are welcome to ask my advice about whether the content is sufficient. DGG 23:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC

Corporate events

 * There needs to be some specified reason why the page is appropriate to an encyclopedia, which could include two or more important events that the company has produced. However, please note that the following will be needed:
 * The event must, in general, be sufficiently notable that it already has by itself a WP page.
 * There must be some published source cited that describes not just the event, but the role of your company in producing it.

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 * I have no particular doubt that it's notable and all that, but could you add some references showing that the term is generally used for the subject? If you're still in the process of working on the article, you should consider adding at the top, which will lessen the chance of someone accidentally or ignorantly deleting it
 * "Organization of biological field stations"seems a useful article, but you'll need to add a good deal more, including especially some references to it in journals or magazines or newsletters, web or print, but not blogs.