User talk:Barnaby dawson/deleted messages

After the first section was posted User:AmyNelson deleted the material posted along with other posts on her talk page. I then left the second message. This second message was also deleted from her talk page.

Hello Amy Nelson
Hello, I've seen you around doing some good work. I'm glad you've become a wikipedian partly because the more the merrier but also because wikipedia needs to strive to eliminate bias and the comment on Baby transport above (and the articles you've created) show that you are helping to fill in some neglected topics. I'd like to give you a couple of hints to help you along your way:


 * I think that you are listing too many articles for deletion. For instance: Adolfas Mekas (Do you know that this person is not notable? - From the text it seems that this person has directed films so is not completely non-notable), Palmerston forts (This article is a stub but stubs can grow and you shouldn't delete articles just because they are stubs), Medtronic Incorporated (This article is biased but is about a notable entity (a fortune 500 company) and should be left as a stub for others to expand (I've removed the POV from it)).
 * You should note that pages should be only earmarked for deletion(take a look) if there is no other sensible course of action to take on them. Remember most articles started as stubs.  That's not to say that there aren't ever good candidates for deletion Votes for deletion/Killing a scottish person within the walls of canterbury, England, with a bow if they are wearing a kilt is a good example.
 * Secondly it is not good etiquette to delete comments on your own user page. This is because some people have deleted complaints about their own behaviour on wikipedia and people think that any complaints/comments should be out in the open.  It is safer to archive the comments on a sub page of your user page.  This stops them making your user page too bloated but allows people who want to see past comments to do so without having to use the page history (which is clumsy for this purpose).  Of course the comments on your page were not complaints but the point still stands.

Sorry to be so negative here (but hey everyones new once). Do keep up the good work on creating new articles. Just be less trigger happy with the delete tag. Barnaby dawson 09:27, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Deleting comments on your talk page
I should point out the wikipage Avoiding common mistakes. This page is essentially a list of rules that others expect you to abide by. The second to last rule is relevent to talk pages. While it's not the case that you can never delete material from your user page it is not considered acceptable to do so to new comments. I wouldn't worry too much about undeleting the comments you have already deleted but I would ask respectfully that you refrain from deleting any further comments (especially those critical of yourself). If you continue to delete critical comments on this page you may find that others take offense in which case they may try to get you banned. Barnaby dawson 10:18, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)