User talk:Dougjames21

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Your article, Give a Doug a Hug Day, is being listed for deletion. WP:ISNOT a venue for promotion of new ideas or original research (an invented holiday falls in there somewhere) but rather a third source for established, notable information. You can check the link from the article for the deletion discussion. &mdash; Lomn | Talk / RfC 13:28:51, 2005-08-30 (UTC)