User talk:Greena1

June 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. An article you recently created, Passport to Israel, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new articles, so it will shortly be removed (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do and please read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. ''

A tag has been placed on Passport to Israel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add  on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. '' -- Coren (talk) 22:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from articles you have created yourself. Please use the template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion. Thank you. -- Coren (talk) 01:11, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Passport to Israel
Hello.

Actually, I didn't delete the article. I tagged it for deletion, then an administator (User:Coredesat) deleted it about four hours later.

You said: This program is over 50 years old. It's a benchmark program in its field with an alumni community in the tens of thousands -- all of which makes it notable.

I'm afraid it does not make it notable by itself. An organization or corporation is notable when it meets the guidelines; but the most important one is non-trivial coverage by independent reliable sources. If you can find that, and state so in the article, then it no longer is a candidate for deletion.

There are other notability guidelines the organization could meet; such as having received significant awards for instance, but the article, as it stood, did not mention any such.

You can write the article in your user space (For instance, by editing User:Greena1/Passport to Israel) and move it to main space once it's sourced. Drafts in subpages of your user page are not subject to speedy deletion, so there is no chance of it vanishing while you work on it there. If you want, I'll come take a look when you feel it's finished to see if it needs more work -- just ask me to do so on my talk page.

Good editing! -- Coren (talk) 16:00, 30 June 2007 (UTC)