User talk:Bcounsel

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Hello, Bcounsel, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Festival of ideas, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Festival of ideas


A tag has been placed on Festival of ideas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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. —teb728 t c 09:40, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Festival of ideas


The article Festival of ideas has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * notability not asserted

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. A:-)Brunuś (talk) 16:45, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Status and Advice
I'm sorry. but not only do I need to tell you we will soon delete your article for not having any content, but I also have to tell you that it will not be very likely to be a suitable subject for an encyclopedia article.

A Wikipedia article needs to show notability with references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. This is almost never the case with school projects.

I do not want to discourage you, but to urge you to  help us by improving our coverage on  topics in your area. For example, we have very sketchy articles on most towns in your area, and they need to expanded. Local newspaper are good sources for this--they don't have to be on the net. (We regard every populated town and even village as worth an article, but I'd urge you to work on the larger towns first). And everyone who was ever a member of the legislature is also an appropriate subject for an article. You just need reliable sources documented the career. When you do write these articles,I have two key points of advice:

1/ do not copy 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 ) 23:11, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Festival of ideas for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Festival of ideas is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Festival of ideas until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Hahc21 [ TALK ] [ CONTRIBS  ] 20:37, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

What happens now
Hello, Bcounsel! I'm sorry that your article was deleted, but it had to be. Here's a note I posted at the discussion, explaining why and suggesting what your next course could be: "Bcounsel, I understand your desire to promote your new festival, but Wikipedia is not the place for it. This is an international encyclopedia, not a bulletin board. In order to have an article here, a subject has to meet the criteria of being notable and having received significant coverage by independent reliable sources. You will realize that your new festival doesn't come close to meeting these criteria. Good luck with it, and I'm sure you can find other venues to promote it (Facebook for example), but Wikipedia is not one of those venues." If you have any questions or comments, you can contact me by clicking on the word "talk" after my signature. Like DGG above, I would encourage you to continue to try to improve Wikipedia. The best way to do that when you are just starting is to make small improvements in existing articles - rather than to immediately write a whole new article. --MelanieN (talk) 14:49, 3 June 2012 (UTC)