User talk:Berwick writer

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Hello, Berwick writer, 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 Cape Neddick Light Station and Sohier Park, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Cape Neddick Light Station and Sohier Park


The article Cape Neddick Light Station and Sohier Park has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No indication of notability

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. Mean as custard (talk) 13:45, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jeff Patten


A tag has been placed on Jeff Patten 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, organization (band, club, company, etc.) or web content, 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.

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. Mean as custard (talk) 13:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Notability
I'm sorry that your first attempts have run up against the notability hurdle, and I will try to explain it a little. In the early days there were some who hoped that Wikipedia would be a "list of everything", so that any person, book, company, song... might have an article; but fairly soon it was decided that this was not practical, and the criterion called WP:Notability was worked out. This tries to avoid Wikipedia editors making value-judgements about what is interesting or important by asking a more objective question: is there evidence that people independent of the subject have thought it important or significant? The general statement of this principle is in the WP:General notability guideline, also known as the GNG, which is that: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article or stand-alone list." More detailed criteria have been worked out, e.g. WP:AUTHOR, WP:POLITICIAN, WP:NFOOTBALL, WP:Notability (books) and so on, but that is the basic principle.

I have deleted the Jeff Patten page under speedy deletion criterion WP:CSD, because the article did not make a "credible claim of significance or importance". If you can find independent references about him, you may of course re-create it.

Books are not eligible for speedy deletion: another editor has placed a WP:Proposed deletion or PROD template on Cape Neddick Light Station and Sohier Park, which means that it will be deleted in 7 days unless someone challenges the deletion by removing the PROD template. Anyone can do that, including you, and once removed it may not be replaced; but the article might then be nominated at WP:Articles for deletion, which would start a debate lasting seven days. As it appears from its Amazon listing that the book was self-published and of only 30 pages, I am afraid it is most unlikely that it meets WP:Notability (books).

I'm sorry to give you so much bureaucracy, but over the years Wikipedia has built up its own ways of doing things. There is a useful guide at WP:Your first article, and a fuller guide at A Primer for newcomers. Don't be discouraged, and do ask for help any time. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:03, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * That's ok. I totally understand. Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it! :) Berwick writer (talk) 18:11, 10 April 2012 (UTC)