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International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day
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AfD nomination of International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day
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International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day - your comments on the talk page
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I read your comments following the nomination for deletion of this article, and thought I might help to try to explain - I am a disinterested party, so no axe to grind.

On Wikipedia, everything is meant to be done according to a community consensus. This may occur naturally as people edit articles individually into a form that conforms to something that is acceptable to everyone, or through discussions. Some of the wider ranging forms of consensus are fleshed out as "policies". These are not set in stone in that everyone can discuss and agree chanegs to them, but they cannot be ignored, because they represent the consensus of all editors.

One such policy regards notability (policy is listed here: WP:N) and this is where you will find the definition of notability in general, as well as links to notability guidelines on more specific topics. The general guideline is that the topic must have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent on the subject. This means finding third-parties, such as newspapers, magazines, and even reliable webcontent (i.e. not user-generated or a wiki type system) that covers the subject of the article. A more comprehensive defintion of this is given on the page I have linked.

Another policy is that the existence of other material on Wikipedia is no reason to include a particular article (see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS) - it might just mean someone hasn't managed to propose it for deletion yet!

For your particular article, I would try to find independent coverage of it in a newspaper, an online piece of reliable work (see WP:RELIABLE) and include it (ideally "them") in your article. Then make a comment on the article for deletion page indicating that you want it kept, and explain that you have since introduced sources to indicate notability.

I hopen this clears up some of your questions. If I've left anything out, or if you have more questions about anything here, just reply either here or on my own talk page. Best wishes - Fritzpoll (talk) 10:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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