User:The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome/greeting

Here about a speedy delete?
Greetings ...

If you have come to my Talk page because of the speedy deletion of an article that you just created, then please take it up with the administrator who deleted it ... all I did was tag it with,  , or one of the other speedy deletion templates ... most likely because it lacked Attribution to establish Notability, i.e., it failed WP:BIO, WP:WEB, or one of the other Policies and guidelines.

Only administrators can delete articles (or restore them after deletion), so click here and enter the article's name in the "Title" field to find out who did it ... please leave your message on their User Talk page, not mine, because they made the final decision that it did not belong here, and they did the actual deletion before you could add a  tag to the article ... please read  Why was my page deleted?  for more information on the process.

See also:  Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles .

Please note that while in New pages patrol mode, I may tag twelve new articles in a single one hour session, or literally dozens in a single day ... and once an article has been deleted, I have no way of seeing what it looked like when I tagged it.

My apologies, but in spite of the courtesy warning message that I left on your Talk page, I honestly cannot be expected to remember which of beau coup reasons caused me to tag your fledgling article for speedy deletion ... only the administrator (who BTW agreed with my opinion and consequently deleted it "on sight") will be able to restore it and give you a proper explanation.

Remember that I did take the time to leave a courtesy warning message on your Talk page with a  template (or a similar but more appropriate one), and I also signed it with , which is why you were able to locate me in the first place ... if you don't like the tone of it, well, I was trying to exercise Civility and not bite the newbie, so please don't blame the messenger for the "user-hostile tone" of the message that was agreed upon by Consensus.

By not using a sandbox first, a "work in progress" stub can be mistaken for a Vanispamcruftisement or a violation of Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day, and both the editor who tags it and the admin who deletes it may have been Too Hasty in their decisions regarding your article, but there are literally hundreds of articles submitted every day by first-time editors who never come back to finish what they started, and perhaps yours was just collateral damage because Some Other Editor had been chasing self-promoters and persistent vandals for Too Long in one uninterrupted session, which can cloud anyone's judgment in spite of their Good Faith motivation ("The road to Hell is paved ...")

Please read What to do after your speedy delete has been restored before you don your Cloak of Righteous Indignation and post messages on Some Other Editor's Talk page that you may later come to regret ... and do not be discouraged if your article is restored and immediately taken to AfD, because that actually gives you a week to improve it without having Some Other Editor tag/zap it again, i.e. it is "protected" from speedy deletion for a minimum period of time, and avoids having a revert-war over  and dated   tags.

If you haven't done so already, now would be a good time to read Your first article.

OTOH, if your article has not been deleted yet, then by all means leave a message on my User Talk page ... I'll explain my concerns and try to work with you, but please note that my response will most likely be moved to either the article's Discussion page or your Talk page (so it won't evaporate if the article is deleted), and even that may not be quick enough to save it.

In any event, I'm sorry that you didn't use your own sandbox instead of posting a "work in progress" that wasn't ready for scrutiny by overzealous, low-tolerance, deletionist administrators ... I wish you better fortune with your next article.

Happy Editing! &mdash; 06:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)