User talk:Dawohlberg

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Speedy deletion nomination of Anderson Community Schools Hall of Fame


A tag has been placed on Anderson Community Schools Hall of Fame 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 club, 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.

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Orphaned non-free media (File:ACS Hall of Fame logo.jpeg)
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Hall of Fame
I have "userfied" the page for you - restored it into a page in your user space at User:Dawohlberg/Anderson Community Schools Hall of Fame.

However, before you put a lot of effort into this, I have to say that I think it most unlikely that it will make an acceptable article. You are looking for a noticeboard where you can pin up a piece intended to boost your Hall of Fame and all the good things it is intended to do: but that is not what an encyclopedia is for. I have this conversation so often that I have written User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard to explain the difference.

There are issues about informal and PR-speak tone - "you might be surprised... worked tirelessly... celebrate their unique journey... " and the amount of description of things you hope will happen in the future - an encyclopedia is "not a crystal ball" and documents things that have happened, not good intentions. That would require a fairly extensive rewrite, bearing in mind the WP:Verifiability policy, which says that: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source", and so would eliminate vaguely benevolent but unverifiable statements like "the community believes that the public schools are the most important priority for Anderson's on-going vitality".

But the most serious issue is WP:Notability, which is Wikipedia's criterion for deciding what subjects are appropriate for articles, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by giving references that show "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See WP:42 for what it means. Given that this project is (a) recent and (b) local, I think it unlikely that you can meet that requirement, and I urge you to think hard about that before you proceed. All too often people spend far too much time and emotional energy piling up trivial references which do nothing to show notability, and the essay WP:AMOUNT has been written as a warning.

If you decide to go ahead, there is good advice at WP:Your first article.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:33, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anderson Community Schools Hall of Fame concern
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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anderson Community Schools Hall of Fame


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 16:01, 13 December 2013 (UTC)