User talk:BurnsAR

A tag has been placed on Glen Allen Community Church, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 20:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

On the talk page, you say that the church has been featured in media. Please provide citations to that. Notability at WP is based upon 3rd party sources like newspapers, books, scholarly journals. If a book has been written specifically about the church, that would be a big step toward notability. Several newspaper articles about the church would also be a good start. In any cases, the coverage in the media must be specific to the church (either in the sense of the building or of the congregation), not merely citing the church tangentially among a discussion of buildings built on Main Street during the Eisenhower years, for example. If you cannot provide these sorts of citations, which other churches have, I would guess that the article will be deleted shortly. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 21:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I am adding some links to news stories on our church including Banana Split, Ernie Irvan, Church opening, etc. Thanks! -Anthony

It's bad enough that you recreated the article, but you just copied and pasted the entire previous content, including the db-tag and the hangon tag. The least you could do is provide new information. Corvus cornix 22:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I was uploading when you made the comment... I will remove it now.. -Anthony

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from articles that you have created yourself. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Elenseel 22:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem... The last person said to delete it... See above... By Corvus... Please know that I am trying to follow all the rules... I am still editing and tweaking the entry... I would like for some to clearly state what I need to fix... I have added past news stories and citations... What else can I add... Thanks!!! -Anthony


 * It is highly unlikely that this church will meet Wikipedia notability standards, and this article will continue to be deleted until you are finally blocked from editing. The article is clearly designed to promote a church (your church, I suspect), and Wikipedia is not a place to promote anything. Realkyhick 07:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I am going to work on this on my personal computer rather than live... Then try and re-post in a couple of months... I will make sure and attach notable sources including all our national and local news coverage. Thanks! -Anthony


 * You still don't seem to understand. You're trying to promote your church, and that simply isn't allowed at Wikipedia. You would be better served if someone outside your congregation — someone without a conflict of interest who could look at your church with a dispassionate eye — would write the article. Otherwise, the article may well be deleted all over again. Realkyhick 16:43, 14 August 2007 (UTC)