User talk:Bean95

A tag has been placed on Arena Kickball, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add  on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Blanchardb 22:34, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your request
I have received your request to reconsider "my" decision to delete your article. Unfortunately, the decision to make that deletion wasn't mine to make in the first place: I just reported what I saw and it just didn't look to me like an encyclopedia article at all. Furthermore, deleted articles, unlike deleted text within an article, are lost forever.

What you can do now is this: click on the link above to your former article, then click on Deletion log. That will tell you who made the actual deletion and why. That's the person you want to contact, not me.

Then you may want to rewrite the article in such a way that it looks like serious work and fits the notability guidelines. You may want to insert the  code in your article to indicate that it's something you're working on (or that your're letting others work on it as well). If you do this, you must still at least assert the notability of your subject to avoid speedy deletion. (Without the stub template, notability must not only be asserted it must be shown.)

In short, you must show that your subject matter is already worthy of encyclopedia coverage. Using the encyclopedia to achieve notability is just not the way to do it. --Blanchardb 16:31, 24 October 2007 (UTC)