User talk:HumanDescent

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There are a few crucial points to keep in mind when editing. Be civil with users, strive to maintain a neutral point of view, and show good etiquette like signing your comments with four tildas like this: ~ If you have any more questions, always feel free to ask me anything on my talk page or ask the true experts at Help desk. Again, welcome! Peppery 10:24, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

The encyclopedia gets many articles about websitess, but they are deleted unless the article shows that they are notable enough for an encyclopedia entry.

One minor point - comments should be added at the bottom of a talk page and signed, which you can do with four tildes thus ~. Please note that I'm going off line very shortly, so if you think your site meets the criteria, you will need to get another sysop to lift the protection. Thanks, jimfbleak 11:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Can someone explain what is meant by the above in plain English ? I appreciate the speedy response by Jimfbleak and appreciate his actions on my deleted then protected "Tattyworld" entry. However how notable does a website need to be ? and essentially why does a page immediately become deletable ? And can I get Tattyworld entry unprotected ?
 * Can someone explain what is meant by the above in plain English? Some pages on Wikipedia are known as Talk pages; you can identify them by the 'talk' in their name (for instance, this is a talk page called User talk:HumanDescent). When commenting on these pages, place new comments at the bottom unless there's somewhere better to place them, and type ~&#126; at the end to add a signature, which looks like this: Ais523 14:19, 31 October 2006 (UTC).
 * How notable does a website need to be? You may want to read the notability criteria guidelines for websites.
 * Why does a page immediately become deletable? There's a set of speedy-delete criteria that lets admins know what can be deleted without a debate; in the case of Tattyworld criterion A7 was used.
 * Can I get Tattyworld entry unprotected? You can apply for unprotections of deleted pages at Deletion review, but you'll have to come up with arguments based on guidelines or policies to convince the regulars there to allow unprotection of the page. You might want to create your own draft at User:HumanDescent/Tattyworld which complies with the guidelines to show the Deletion Review regulars that an article that complies with the guidelines can be written. --ais523 14:19, 31 October 2006 (UTC)