User talk:C.skeldon93

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Speedy deletion nomination of Chance UK


A tag has been placed on Chance UK 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.

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I made an article for the charity Chance UK, which met the criteria for speedy deletion. What exactly do I need to do to improve the notability of the article? I have included all the relevant information and added references etc. C.skeldon93 (talk) 10:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find the article, so I can't give you any exact advice, but you can read the criteria for notability here and here. Hope this helped. -- andy4789 ★ ·  (talk?   contribs?)  11:51, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The page was deleted last night, however I still have a copy of the page saved to USB - is it possible to make the page again? If so would you then be able to advise me on how to improve it to prevent it from being deleted again? C.skeldon93 (talk) 12:42, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I looked at the deleted page, and the two reasons given for its deletion were A7 - does not assert notability in a credible fashion and G11 - blatant advertising that would need a substantial rewrite in order to meet our standards. I think A7 was incorrect, since the honours given at the end of the article (if you can source them with reliable sources, such as the official pages for the award).  However, I did have the impression many times in reading the article that I was reading material from the charity's own website.  Perhaps you could remove a lot of the details about the mentoring and such?  Keep the honours as those help establish notability, and neutral details such as when it was founded.  Syrthiss (talk) 12:50, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

I have resubmitted the page and have rewritten it from a neutral viewpoint and deleted sections that may seem to be advertising the charity - Chance UK, however it still comes up with this message - 	This article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links. Would you be able to look at the article and higlight the areas that still appear to be written like an advertisement? C.skeldon93 (talk) 16:18, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * If you can take a look at this diff, it shows what you had written on the left panel and my changes on the right. Your edits to the page since then are also included in that diff of the changes.  I think that removing those two sections has a lot to help the tone of the article.  After all, if people want more information the charity website is clearly linked there.  Does that help? Syrthiss (talk) 16:31, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes that's a great help, thanks. C.skeldon93 (talk) 16:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

February 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Chance UK has been reverted. Your edit here to Chance UK was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/#!/chanceuk) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)