User talk:Aang

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Re: oldschool4life?
Aang wrote:
 * How come you deleted my article on oldschool4life? Aang 06:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Your article was deleted in accordance with our speedy deletion policy, specifically our notability criterion, which states:


 * "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."

Your article concerned a website. There are literally billions of websites on the internet, and Wikipedia simply cannot accept articles about them all. We have to restrict ourselves to those websites that can establish notability, or importance. Your article simply stated the name, creator and purpose of the website; this could be done for every site on the internet, but the result would be a web directory, not an encyclopedia. As Wikipedia is not a directory, we only accept encyclopediaic articles. The article also gave the impression that you are the owner and creator of the website; writing articles about yourself or things under your direct control is not accepted, partly because of the difficultly of avoiding bias and verifying information with reliable sources – Gurch 16:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC)