User talk:Databoybiz

I'm an instructor at the Art Institute of Colorado. I teach Interactive Media Design. I'll write more later!

I'm really busy trying to protect an article I'm trying to write!

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New Media Developer
Hi,

I have removed the links in the article which constituted linkspam, and am allowing the page to run through Wikipedia's regular articles for deletion process. The article is very, very likely to be deleted, as the site fails WP's notability guideline at WP:WEB. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and articles about small educational projects, however noble they are, are generally not noteworthy. Best wishes, Xoloz 17:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

more on New Media Developer
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem to me that New Media Developer meets these criteria, I have started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/New Media Developer. Don't forget to add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last five days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, an administrator will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article.

I also appologize that I didn't send you this message sooner and since, as a teacher, you obviously have knowledge on many subjects Wikipedia needs information on, I encourage you to edit other entries relating to web programming. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 18:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Judge the article (and its subject) on its merits!
I appreciate the comments that suggest improving the article to meet the Wikipedia requirements!

After reviewing other online communities, it would appear that this article can be edited to meet the requirements on those merits alone.

Also, as an educational project it has generated thousands of answers/topics of study with hundreds of project for three years!

Databoybiz 19:46, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This discussion probably belongs at Articles for deletion/New Media Developer and not here, but I will answer you here anyways. You suggest improving the article to meet Wikipedia requirements (I assume as opposed to deleting the article).  If I thought improving the article to meet Wikipedia requirements were possible, I would not have requested that it be deleted.  Improving the article will not change the fact that its subject does not belong on Wikipedia (read WP:WEB).  An article about a website that only a handful of people use will not be useful except to those handful of people.  Please don't take offense, as I really think you would do a great job improving other articles on the various other subjects web programmers have created.  ~a (user • talk • contribs) 20:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)