User talk:Daisyrabbit

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Hello, Daisyrabbit, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Damian Rogers, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Damian Rogers


The article Damian Rogers has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners or ask at Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one.  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 20:32, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm willing to restore the page to your userspace for you; it'll be at User:Daisyrabbit/Damian Rogers. The concern was that the article didn't really explain what actually makes her notable; it just called her a poet, listed her books with links to online bookstores (which isn't appropriate on here), and then provided an uncontextualized list of newspaper links that happen to mention her name. It wasn't really an encyclopedia article, because it really didn't contain any meaningful information about her — in truth, it was basically a directory listing that didn't really seem to have much of a point to it besides getting people to click through and buy her books.

The best thing you can do, if you want to improve the article, is to look at some of the articles we have on more famous writers, just to get an overall sense of the kind of tone and format that we actually want on here — and then write an actual article about her. Bearcat (talk) 04:45, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * And, just so you know in the future, please post talk page comments at the bottom of the page you're posting to, not in the middle. I didn't even see your post until today (January 4), almost two weeks after you posted it, because you didn't post it at the bottom of the page where people normally look for new comments. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 05:10, 4 January 2011 (UTC)