User talk:Alessandrobrecht

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Speedy deletion nomination of Lizzie Fricker
A tag has been placed on Lizzie Fricker 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, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Lizzie Fricker
I read your comment on the talk page, and I have declined the speedy deletion nomination on this article; but it is not clear to me that she meets the standard WP:Notability (academics), and it is possible that the article may be nominated under the Articles for deletion process. That would start a discussion, normally lasting seven days, so there would be time for you to improve the article.

I should point out that your argument "There are many far less well-known academics who have wikipedia pages, and thus for the sake of uniformity, this article should stay" is not one that is accepted here - see What about article x? We know that many of our 3 million articles are substandard, but that is not an argument for admitting more. Any discussion will focus on this article and whether it meets Wikipedia's standards.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC)