User talk:Ikline

Questioned deletion
I would like to say something to whomever deleted the Friends of evan article:

First of all, I didn't have time to complete the addition of a hangon before you purged the document... hold your horses for more than 5 minutes before you go popping something.

Secondly, I have 3 single-spaced pages of content to put there about this group. I'm a town councilman in the are where they sprung up, and the group's leaders are all about to head off to college. With intent on turning into the next "Rotary Club", only more focused on people entering social sciences, I thought a wiki article would be the best way to get some history and ground information together for people that might want to join!

I see however, that this is a futile effort, what with the page having been deleted faster than I could post. Sorry about the mess, as much as I love using wikipedia for fast access to information, this incident has severely soured my attitude toward the project.

I don't care about the page going up so much anymore, I would just like to know what the grounds were for such IMMEDIATE deletion. Nothing offensive was posted, and there was nothing in violation of the copywright policy...

Just curious,

I. Kline


 * The reason for deletion was quite simple - the article was unencyclopedic. It fitted in with several criteria at What Wikipedia is not. If this secret society does have some notability, then please provide evidence of this. Please also note that notability means something more than just a mention in the local newspaper. As to your proposal for recruiting people, I think those are grounds for deletion by themselves, because Wikipedia is not a free webspace provider nor is it an advertising board. Note the absence of advertising spam? Green Giant 02:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


 * However notable the group is, you shot yourself in the foot by a) poor quality: lower case e on Evan in the title, "it's", b) apparent nonsense such as "god emperor". Come back only when you have gone national and stayed national for twelve months. -- RHaworth 10:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)