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Speedy deletion nomination of Croatan Roller Derby


A tag has been placed on Croatan Roller Derby, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.

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Removing Speedy at Croatan Roller Derby
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Reasons
I deleted your article - partly accidentally. The accident bit was that I deleted it for being promotional. A better reason would have been notability, but there looked to be a promo aspect in that the team did not appear to be active yet (as I read it. anyway). Other teams may have articles already - but please see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. They may have been around longer, and achieved the required coverage in reliable independent sources WP:RS. You see, Wikipedia isn't somewhere where where you can just post any old thing, like you seem to be able to at AboutUs, Facebook and MySpace. It's an encyclopaedia, and there has to be notability for the subjects of the articles. This can be read about at WP:GNG - that's general notability. We do have some sport specific policies, but I don't thing roller derby has achieved that yet. Read those policies, then, if you think you CAN make the grade, contact me at my user page and say why. By the way, I really ought to block your account as it appears to represent an organisation. Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only, so I'd advise abandoning this one (if someone else doesn't block it first) before you think again about an article. If you were seriously into spam commercially, I would have blocked. Choose a name not containing Croatan or derby. This one will do (if not blocked) until we work out whether or not it's worth going ahead with another try. If it goes, start a new account. There's not enough on this one to worry about renaming it. Good luck with the races, and remember that while we have a lot of rules here that aren't immediately apparent, we do try to help people that get knocked back if we can - and if they're worth it (i.e. not spamming fake Rolexes...) Peridon (talk) 20:50, 8 October 2012 (UTC)