User talk:Darrenw71

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Delete Allison Durbin....why?
I'm trying to send a message to Merope and I'm not sure if this is the right place. You'll probably ban my IP if I got it wrong, seems to be the way you guys work. Why did you delete the article on Allison Durbin? You stated something about notability. She has produced 13 albums in Australia and New Zealand, is this not enough? I know she is not American and if you're born American that automatically gives you enough credibility to be in Wiki. I started off the article for someone to write it out better but if I'm suppose to write the whole this perfectly the first time you can forget it. And even then someone could delete it because it doesn't sit well with them. I would like to edit Wiki, but this is a bit of the kick in the teeth. It was deleted so fast, too bad if I was still editing it. Darrenw 03:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi! I'm here to answer your question. You should leave a message on Merope's talk page at User talk:Merope. You can ask him why the page was deleted, exactly, and I'm sure he'll help you out. If you need anymore help, feel free to contact me on my talk page (User talk:Hmwith). Happy Wikying! hmwith talk   05:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Another editor's two cents:


 * I had nothing to do with the initial deletion, but since I regularly patrol the list of new pages looking for spam, empty articles, vanity pages, attack pages, and other candidates for speedy deletion, maybe I can help.


 * It doesn't look like there's much doubt about Allison Durbin's notability, but it the article doesn't say why she's notable WP:CSD, or if it's a short article providing no context WP:CSD, it's liable to get speedied regardless. Remember, we're not psychic.  Not everyone knows everything about everything, and if the article is "under construction", we can only judge an article by what's there, not what's going to be there.  If there are no references to reliable sources, we're not necessarily going to look for them for you.


 * A lot of headaches can be saved by not posting an article before it's done. Either a) use "Show preview" a lot to check your progress without saving, or b) work on the article elsewhere, either by going offline with a word processor, or by creating a subpage of your userpage as a temporary workspace where you can work at your leisure without being bothered.  When you're done, you can simply move the finished product to the main article space, and in the case of the subpage, you can flag it for deletion by adding  if you're not going to use it again.


 * And don't worry about getting blocked. That usually requires repeated disruption and only after repeated warnings.  Relax. :-)


 * It looks like someone else has created a new Allison Durbin article and one or two others are helping out on it. Feel free to join in and add what you can.  That's what it's all about, after all.  Thanks, and take care. -- Finngall   talk  05:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)