User talk:36goodnews

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Hello, 36goodnews, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as James Stouvenel, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of James Stouvenel


A tag has been placed on James Stouvenel 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 person or group of people, 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 this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. GILO  A&E&uArr;  17:51, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

advice
I'm sorry, but as an administrator here I had to delete the article. I appreciate the inspiring history. One of my family being disabled, I appreciate the need to fight for disability rights, and the importance of the work you did.

But WP is not a place for such personal accounts, not even for people well known in the immediate neighborhood. Rather, the standards are that it must be about the sort of person that one would expect to find in an Encyclopedia, as shown by references providing substantial coverage from  3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases--see WP:BIO.

If you do have such references try again, but focus on the part that was was notable, not the miscellaneous vocational circumstances of your life, and you undoubtedly well justified grievances about them. And include the references at the very first edit. But it would be enormously better for someone else to write the article--it is very hard to be objective about oneself.

I do not want to discourage you, but to urge you to  help us by improving our coverage on  topics in your area of interest. For example, we have very sketchy articles on most disability related legislation and court decisions; any state legislation, and any court case that has reached the appealate courts, is appropriate for an articles. Any librarian can help you find good sources for these. Some organizations will also, if there are good objective published sources in magazines and newspapers that do not come from the press releases. When you do write these articles, I have two key points of advice:

1/ do not copy from a web site; rewrite the information from scratch

2/ put in a reference to a published source at the very first edit. This is particularly important for articles about living people, which will be deleted if there are no references.

If I can help you further, let me know on my user talk page.  DGG ( talk ) 19:22, 5 November 2011 (UTC)  DGG ( talk ) 19:11, 5 November 2011 (UTC)