User talk:Acharles9517

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Speedy deletion nomination of Joe Bertram Frantz


A tag has been placed on Joe Bertram Frantz 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 the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can 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 a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent 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. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 16:24, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I did not delete it; a quick check showed he is the author of many books, and will clearly meet our requirements for notability as WP:AUTHOR and also WP:PROF. But the article was so incomplete that I wouldn't have blamed any admin who had deleted it.

I've put an "underconstruction" tag on it, which will give you a chance to finish it.

Please do so as soon as possible. To help you out, I'm adding a list of his books from WorldCat. Please add any book reviews of them you can find-a librtarian can help in this. I have two key points of advice for writing Wikipedia articles:

1/ never copy or paraphrase 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 ) 16:49, 25 April 2012 (UTC)