User talk:Higherres

Speedy deletion nomination of Mega mammoth plate
Hello Higherres,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Mega mammoth plate for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 13:35, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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Your article
Hi. Sorry to have deleted your article, but Wikipedia is not the place to be proposing new things. This is an encyclopaedia, and we record things that are already notable. You may have a point about the names of plate sizes - I wouldn't know as I've never used them - but until the names are accepted widely (and this can be referenced in reliable independent sources), it's up to you to publicise your idea in the appropriate places. That could include forums, blogs, Facebook etc - but not Wikipedia. I deleted on the context reason, but it really should have been for promotion. Wikipedia doesn't allow promotion or advertising - whether it's a multi-national, a desperate charity, the 100% certain way to heaven, or a naming system for photo plates. Proposing something is regarded as promoting. It looks better on the page's record to have 'context' rather than 'promotion', so when your idea gets taken up by other photographers and an article about the (by then) established names gets written, it's not got spam connotations. I hope you don't feel we're being hard on you - we are hard on the worst of the spammers and self-promoters - and that you can understand where we're at. Good luck. Peridon (talk) 15:21, 3 May 2015 (UTC)