User talk:Jls-sea

Oracle Gatherings
My apologies about the delay in getting back to you. I haven't been ignoring your message intentionally, I've been quite busy with school and the like. Do forgive me.

As to Oracle Gatherings - I have never heard of one, let alone attended one, unfortunately. What happened with the article was this: the Oracle Gatherings page had been tagged for "Proposed Deletion." The person who tagged the article did so with the reasoning "NN festival." In actual English, (as opposed to Wiki-speak) that means that the festival is not of sufficient notability to warrant an article in the Wikipedia. Since five days passed and no one removed or disputed the tag in any visible way (in fact, one other person endorsed it), I deleted it as per policy.

Hopefully that's a fairly reasonable explanation. I'm not particularly adept at explaining things, so if you're confused, see Proposed deletion for more details.

Now, as to some of your other comments. First, if "the reason the article was started in the first place was to get the info out there," as you yourself stated, that is self-promotion. Wikipedia is for documenting things that are already "out there," not for putting things out there. Second, if "the Gatherings barely generate any money," as you said, they are probably not generating very much attendance, and thus are probably not very notable.

Generally, in order to prove notability, authors/editors must show that a "given topic...has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works, where the source is independent of the topic itself." Thus, the Oracle Gatherings website is not a usable source. See Attribution and Notability for details on reliable sources and notability guidelines.

Hopefully that answers your questions. If not, I'm always here. &spades; P  M  C  &spades; 07:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)