User talk:Blackcheck20

Speedy deletion of "Raymond Grissom"
A page you created, Raymond Grissom, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, organisation, or web content, but does not indicate why its subject is important or significant.

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Thank you. \ / (⁂) 10:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

links
Here is all that was in the article:

http://www.mdjonline.com/content/index/showcontentitem/area/1/section/15/item/100893.html http://www.ronbrown.org/Scholars/ScholarProfiles/ScholarProfile.aspx?Name=rdgrissom&GalleryItem=9568b04f-53a4-460b-9c84-13b18d4feb53 http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23109 http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS153367+14-Apr-2008+BW20080414 http://www.kennesaw.edu/hsmun/archive/2008/archive/2007/files/ksuhsmun-reporter-1.pdf http://www.questbridge.org/students/student_profiles.html http://campbellhighschool.typepad.com/becky_robinson/2008/05/senior-recognit.html

Cheers, Gwen Gale (talk) 21:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Raymond Grissom
A tag has been placed on Raymond Grissom requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. 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.

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 * Article is building, looks ok now. Gwen Gale (talk) 12:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Raymond Grissom has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\btypepad\.com\b' (link(s): http://campbellhighschool.typepad.com/becky_robinson/2008/05/senior-recognit.html).

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Response from an actual human
Okay, I've read what you wrote about Mr Grissom, and I've read the external articles you linked to, and... well, I'm sorry. Mr Grissom seems to be an extremely bright young man with a lot of potential, but... there's nothing in particular about him that could be used as the basis of an encyclopedia article (or at least, there's nothing that was mentioned in any of the sources you mentioned).

There are thousands of extremely bright young men and women with a lot of potential. We don't, we can't, have articles on each and every one of them, not until they've actually done something to distinguish themselves from all the others. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr Grissom does something particularly notable in the future, but until that happens... no. No article about him. Sorry. DS (talk) 12:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

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Raymond Grissom
I've read what you've written about Raymond Grissom, and its very interesting... but its not suitable for Wikipedia. Right now Grissom is a big ball of potential. He is an inspiring one, which is why there are those news stories about him, but Grissom makes for good journalism, but not for a good encyclopedia article.

If you want to encourage people to learn about Grissom, the best thing you can do is write up our own peice of journalism on him and then submit it to papers, but until Grissom does something that an encyclopedia can write about, Grissom will not be able to have an article about here.--Tznkai (talk) 16:09, 3 November 2008 (UTC)