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Speedy deletion nomination of 9th Irene Air scouts


A tag has been placed on 9th Irene Air scouts requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that your page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Infobox 9thIRENE


A tag has been placed on Template:Infobox 9thIRENE requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it must be substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes.

If you think that your page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page's talk page, where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Deletion
It's not a question of benefits to the community or being a good cause. It's a question of notability. The Scouting Movement is a notable organisation. Individual groups, troops, packs, colonies, etc, usually aren't. If you can show that yours meets WP:GROUP and provide reliable independent sources WP:RS to prove it, try again. Not until. Note that your site, Johnny in Red Six's site, blogs, forums, wikis, Facebook, YouTube, directories and so on, are not reliable independent sources. Keep up the good work anyway. Peridon (talk) 16:57, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The WP things are policies - GROUP is about group notability, and RS is about reliable independent sources or references - places where we can check what you are saying. All new articles should have the references (and we're catching up with the very old articles that were posted before things tightened up. That's the only Wikipedia talk in my post - the other 'lingo' is Scouting talk. UK scouting might use different groupings from yours. Basically, what I'm saying is that unless your scout group is very unusual, it won't be notable enough for an article. Not everything gets an article. It's not like Facebook or MySpace where anyone can have a page and put what they like (within reason) on it - and keep sole control of it. This is an encyclopaedia where almost anyone can edit. (Obviously, if you haven't got internet access you can't, and some people are blocked from editing or banned from the site for various reasons.) If you're still having problems after reading the policies, have a talk with User:MelanieN, or User:Cindamuse, or look into the Teahouse WP:TEAHOUSE where there are more friendly people who can help you and explain things. I won't be around much for the next couple of days, probably. Just click on those links for the policies or the helpful people. Peridon (talk) 18:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)