User talk:Criticalflicker

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Speedy deletion nomination of Helen Kerr
A tag has been placed on Helen Kerr 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 or group of people, 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, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles – see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Djug (talk) 16:29, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

The page Nigel Smith (graphic designer) has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which is unlikely to be suitable for an article (or at best would need a fundamentally rewrite). Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 17:41, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Helen Kerr - verifiability
Do not be too alarmed by the "BLP PROD" template at the top of the article - it can be removed when any reliable source has been added to the article to confirm what it says. WP:Verifiability is a fundamental policy: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth&mdash;whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true", and the BLP PROD process was introduced because of concern at the large number of unsourced biographies of living persons.

The Kerr & Co website link is no use for this purpose because it does not, as far as I can see, mention Helen Kerr. (If you will forgive a private off-the-subject rant, I found it a peculiarly annoying website - makes the reader wait through a set of motherhood-and-apple-pie statements like "Do good" and "Play fair", is written in trendy but hard-to-read pale colours, and when you do find your way through it seems to lead only to advertisements for chairs and the like, which I suppose are the company's clients). End of rant - back to the point, which is that statements in the article require to be verifiable, and the link does not help with that. I tried to find a source for the statement that she is a professor at OCAD, but she does not appear on their faculty list. For any statement you make in the article, imagine someone looking over your shoulder saying "Can you prove that?"

Sources directly connected with the subject may be used to verify statements in the article, but are not enough to show notability, which requires evidence of substantial independent coverage.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:32, 9 October 2010 (UTC)