User talk:Donna M Avery

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re The United States Surfing Indian
please email my domain I do not understand Wikipedia its not taking my uploads either just picture of my medal

Hi, welcome and I hope you like it here. If there's anything I can do to help you, drop me a line.

Re The United States Surfing Indian, while we know articles take a little time to develop, "In progress" is a bit short for even a new article... it probably won't be allowed to exist in that state too long (we have a massive cleanup machine that sweeps up all new articles that aren't up to snuff after a period). Just so you know.

Is this to be an article about Donna Avery? Maybe it should be under that name? ("United States Surfing Indian" could still exist as a WP:REDIRECT to take people to that article; the "The" is usually not included in article titles, although Avery may be an exception).

Also, you can't be that Donna M Avery, so just wondering if you are a relative or somesuch? Which is fine. Note that biographical articles must meet WP:BIO, which basically means a couple of newspaper/magazine articles about the person, as references. Anyway, good luck, and message me if any questions. Herostratus (talk) 19:52, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Ohhhh.... you are the artist? You are very closely related to Donna M Avery (and have the same name?) and she is deceased last year...? My condolences to you... I would really like to help you get this article done and accepted (which is the hard part; a person has to be "notable" enough by our standards (per WP:GNG).

Based on FindAGrave material, we may have enough material and notability for an article. What we need are reliable sources. FindAGrave is not a reliable source (see WP:Reliable sources for our standards, but in short we like magazine or newspaper articles best, or reliable websites, etc.)

Do you have any articles? They don't need to be online... clippings will do. Or anything else.

So if you want any help I'm here, and if you don't, good luck and godspeed! Herostratus (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, OK, I see below that the article got deleted. That's OK. The article Donna Avery can be created. I'm willing to help if you have references. Herostratus (talk) 21:50, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The United States Surfing Indian


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on The United States Surfing Indian requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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