User talk:Alan.ca/DeletionDiscuss

Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro) - AfD
Could you please take another look at Articles for deletion/Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro) ? Subway stations are notable. Wikipedia has many good articles on individual subway stations in New York, Paris and elsewhere. As well, Jules Joffrin (the person), a French politician who lived many decades ago, is notable himself. --Eastmain 00:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, can you point me to the guidline or policy dealing with the notability of subway stations? Further, have you considered writing an article on Jules Joffrin? Alan.ca 01:23, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * There already is an article on Jules Joffrin (the person). --Eastmain 04:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you, I subsequently noted this point as it was presented in the AfD. I started a merge discussion on the talk page for the parent article, have you had the chance to participate in the discussion? Alan.ca 04:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Murchison region of Western Australia - PROD
As above your kind attention on the Murchison region of Western Australia is a bit like doing a number on Lake Ontario as far as West OZ is concerned! Thanks for pointing it out - it will be populated faster then if you recited the names of canadian provinces in french and english..... SatuSuro 11:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I appreciate that this region may be locally significant, but you must admit the article was in pretty poor shape when I tagged it with PROD. I'm pleased to read that someone is interested in the article.  Hopefully this interest will translate into article development and possibly a cited source.  Alan.ca 14:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The article was atrocious I am relieved that you didnt delete on sight! bit like some of my indonesian stubs (please dont trawl - I will clean them up....:)  promise- new year resolution.... SatuSuro 14:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well that's the beauty of PROD, if anyone interested is watching the page, they get the hint and remove the PROD. Otherwise, the abandoned article is deleted in five days.  Do you have a favorite article on wikipedia or a project of interest? Alan.ca 14:30, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * IF you go into my user page - and trawl through my contributions - not up to date unfortunately - its five tiered - West Coast Range, WikiProject Australian maritime history, WikiProject Western Australia, WikiProject Indonesia and the sadly neglected Sacred places of Java (see I am not linking that one.. its embarrasing - it leads to very divided loyalties as I started three of them, sigh.... SatuSuro 14:38, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Have you read wp:cite and do you know about how to use in line references that automatically show up as footnotes? Are you aware of the citation templates as well? Alan.ca 14:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Not recently - if you checked all my west coast tasmania articles - all done with no consistency -and manually and old fashioned without cite/or template - maybe I should get some practice -  I do so many welcomes and try to get newbies up and running - if they asked me about citation - I'd have to check anyways.  One of our WP Australia marathon admins has had me sweating over some arts similar to your  prod - over sources... but I have been putting in old way.  Maybe thats my christmas present to myself - working out cite and template -  funny one of my 3  best mate admins here in perth and I started our friendship after a fight over sources a very long ago... :)   sorry I digress... SatuSuro 14:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I found reading wp:cite and wp:foot extremely useful. I recently re-read them and learned how to use one citation in multiple places without repeating the entire citation.  If you have any questions or need a hand understanding something, drop me a note.  If you like I can even help you improve an article.  Alan.ca 14:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for thaat have a good christmas! SatuSuro 15:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You too mate! You have no idea how much I appreciate running into an editor that doesn't take wikipedia too seriously.  Alan.ca 15:18, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Anytime, if you need comic relief just visit our corner of wkipedia ... :(  SatuSuro 23:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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Wow. "Doesn't seem to speak of anything useful" is quite a bold indictment. It's also an opinion disputed by many and a sweeping generalization. If you look at the edit logs, you'll see that several editors had a hand in this article. Imperfect as it is, it is certainly not blatant advertising, and does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. Even if you think something is advertising, please consider a standard AfD listing instead, to give contributors to that article a chance to respond and defend it. Better yet, consider an tag. A word to the wise is sufficient, and it's much better to improve a deficient article than to delete one. (See the 3rd bullet point in the things to bear in mind paragraph of the etiquette guideline.) The tag has been removed, not by me, but by another contributor and member of TelevisionStationsProject. dhett 06:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, thanks for the counter-point. I filed an AfD, let's see where it goes.  If you could find some independent sources to cite for the article it would support keeping it. Alan.ca 06:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe the relevant guideline supporting deletion/inclusion for this type of article would be WP:CORP. Please comment on how you find this article meets the criteria of the guideline. Alan.ca 07:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)