User talk:Cholden13

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Proposed deletion of Michael Behar (writer/editor)


The article Michael Behar (writer/editor) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Biography that is only self sourced.

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. Dennis Brown (talk) 01:47, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Michael Behar (writer/editor). When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 16:42, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Michael Behar (writer/editor) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Behar (writer/editor) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Michael Behar (writer/editor) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Dennis Brown (talk) 17:20, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with Michael Behar (writer/editor). Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 18:19, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Just in case the page gets speedy-deleted as you requested, I thought I'd copy what I just posted to the talk page here, so that you understand what's going on - I hope you learn from some early missteps (we all make them here) and continue to contribute to Wikipedia!
 * Cholden - you had linked words in the article to copies of the article on the author's site, and we are supposed to avoid links to external sites in the body of an article, so I had switched them to references as a temporary measure. To be an appropriate reference, it should be to the original publication ("How to Eat Cupcakes", Cupcake Novices, March 1978), with a link to the article on the publisher's website being a good idea if the article happens to be on the publisher's website. Having said that, the main problem with this article is that it demonstrates that Behar has written for significant sources, it may not establish sufficiently that significant sources are talking about Behar his work. Articles by Behan don't really establish notability; articles about Behar do. What we have here that might contribute to Wikipedia recognizing notability is the award nomination (although that is not sourced to a reliable source and I'm not sure how significant that award is), and the interview with Radio New Zealand about his work (although looking at the descriptor on the podcast page, it looks as though it may more talking to him about a topic that he has written about rather than talking to him about his writing.)
 * In any case, if you want to keep this article around, you need to go to the article's deletion discussion (linked at the top of the article) and make a case to establish that Behar is notable enough to get an article on him; it would be a good idea to review the guidelines on notability and place your argument in those terms.
 * Thank you for being aggressive and trying to introduce a new article into Wikipedia; don't be discouraged if it's not going smoothly, we all have to learn the ropes around here. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:49, 11 January 2012 (UTC)