User talk:Dave Kollasch

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Speedy deletion of Dave Kollasch
A tag has been placed on Dave Kollasch 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.

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Proper Biography Needed for Dave Kollasch
This page was not properly created and should not have been created on a User page. Dave Kollasch should have a full biography as he is also considered by many around the world to be a legend in the aggressive skating industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_inline_skating. Dave became world-renowned during the same years of the 1990's as Arlo Eisenberg, who has a complete biography in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo_Eisenberg.

Please allow time for a proper biography to be created for Dave Kollasch. In short, Dave was one of the very first aggressive skaters to be sponsored by Arlo Eisenberg's company, Senate, in 1994. Dave was a pioneer of the up-and-coming sport, being the first to do certain tricks and holding two records for the longest handrails ever slid on inline skates. Dave also had three pro model wheels and a pro model inline skate. He was featured in over fifteen videos that were sold around the world.

Thank you in advance for delaying the speedy deletion while a proper biography is written for Dave Kollasch.

Sincerely, Dave Kollasch (talk) 02:21, 5 December 2014 (UTC)Dave KollaschDave Kollasch (talk) 02:21, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I have a major question: are you Dave Kollasch? If so, you really need to read over our conflict of interest policy and be aware that it is highly discouraged for people to write their own Wikipedia entries. If not, then you will need to change your username because we cannot allow people to have a username that implies that they are someone else. I was going to move the page to AfC, but I chose to delete it for two reasons. The first is that this page was initially created in 2006 and managed to avoid detection until 2014, when it was nominated for deletion. The second is that the more I looked at it the more promotional it read. Writing that someone is a "skating legend" is an opinion. It may be widely held, but we can't use phrases like that on Wikipedia. You might be able to use it if you were quoting someone other than Kollasch and if that person is a reliable source per Wikipedia's guidelines for sources (WP:RS). In any case, I don't see where you'd really given this page any thought until it was recently nominated and I don't see where you've made any sort of other edits to Wikipedia, so I am more inclined to be worried that if I was to leave it you'd just abandon it again instead of trying to make an article that fits guidelines. The page is in the userspace, but even so it still would have to fit basic guidelines. The userspace isn't for the indefinite hosting of material and it also isn't a place to promote someone. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:58, 5 December 2014 (UTC)