User talk:Hesptom

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Hi Largoplazo, Thank you for your speedy check of my newly created page. The Ideal of Meta Darwinism was one created as part of our Design Undergraduate Degree and as I am currently trying to get all relevant components of this online and there are not currently many references to it on the web but creation of a wiki page has by all involved been proposed as a way of helping us validate its existence. I was aware that the term may have been used before but not in a way to describe a process as shown in your citation, would it be possible to list the page as independent idea such as how there are disambiguation pages with the same name? I am also in the process of getting in touch with academics and others who may be able to add validity to the process we have created but any suggestions you could give on how to fully validate what we have made would be greatly appreciated as we need this wiki page as part of our on going work to get it accepted as a useable method and theory Thanks again and apologies Hesptom (talk) 18:56, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, rather than a platform for composing one's research and having it reviewed and validated. It's for topics that are already what Wikipedia calls notable. An idea that you are only now developing and that hasn't already been written about in depth in a variety of reliable sources independent of you doesn't qualify for an article here. If, later on, it finds its way into the academic literature or even the popular press, then the situation will be different.
 * It isn't clear to me why you feel you need Wikipedia to accomplish your goals. It sounds like what you may need is a collaboration site, perhaps Google Docs.
 * Now you know, at least, that the name has already been taken! —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:18, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Meta Darwinism


The article Meta Darwinism has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Meta-Darwinism was described by Fowler and Kuebler in 2007,, and this is where most articles identified by Google lead. The rest that have dates on them also predate 2015. So either this article is false, or else this other group independently came up with an ideology that happens to have the same name, but virtually none of Google's hits seem to refer to it, so it doesn't appear to pass WP:GNG.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —Largo Plazo (talk) 18:30, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Meta Darwinism


A tag has been placed on Meta Darwinism requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about something invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally, and 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.

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