User:The Land/Deletion

If I have marked or voted your article for deletion, please don't take offence. Wikipedia has a complicated set of policies about what should and shouldn't be included and it can be quite confusing to work out what's going on.

I may have got the wrong end of the stick entirely, and you are more than welcome to put your case. Reasons I nominate things for deletion are mainly:

Because I don't think it makes sense: in the past I have marked perfectly valid, but odd, things to be deleted. If you show that the subject of the article actually exists and makes sense then I'll happily change my mind.

Because I don't think it's encyclopedic: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. My view is that the subject of an article needs to be 'notable' to be worth including. In short to support something to be included I prefer to see evidence of:
 * A person, website, band, or publication being known by and of interest to tens (preferably hundreds) of thousands of people
 * A record label, publisher, mainstream news source or similar spending their time and money on the subject of the article
 * A subject being of academic interest, in whatever field

Unpublished books, unsigned bands and the like are great. In fact, everyone should contribute to one or both. But they don't need to be in Wikipedia.

If your article does end up being deleted, then please look for other ways to contribute. It's a big encyclopedia.