User talk:Joannaandjer

Thanks for experimenting with the page User:Hansnesse on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --Hansnesse 17:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I noticed your comments on the talk page of Jeremy C. Schwendiman. Since this is a controversial deletion, I have moved it to Articles for Deletion. On Wikipedia, there are three processes for article deletion: Speedy deletion, Proposed deletion, and Articles for Deletion. Speedy deletion is only used for vandalism, obvious test pages, patent nonsense, etc (see Criteria for speedy deletion). The proposed deletion is for uncontroversial deletions which do not meet speedy criteria. And finally, the Articles for Deletion process is for anything else. Articles for deletion have a discussion page which is open for seven days. I had initially nominated the article under proposed deletions, but moved it to articles for deletion due to your comment.

You are welcome and encouraged to give your reasons for wanting to keep the article. You may find the policy WP:BIO relevant (there are a host of other policies and guidlines as well, the complete list is at Policies and guidelines). Although the policy states authors should have at least 5000 copies sold, exceptions and special cases are commonplace, so your discussion is very appropriate (in fact, remember to ignore all rules when they get in the way of a good encyclopedia).

Full details on the deletion process can be found at WP:AFD. The discussion usually looks like a vote, however it is not. Rather it is an attempt to build consensus. Although my own reading is that it is not an enecyclopedic article, I hope you do stick around and edit material further. I have taken the liberty of adding the pictures to the article it appeared you were trying to insert. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you have any questions, etc. I am also attaching a welcome message below which has some useful links and ways to seek other help. I appreciate also that the amount of policy I linked to above may be overwhelming. Don't worry if you don't get a chance to read it all before commenting; it is only there in case you might want to see it. Thanks for the work on Wikipedia. --Hansnesse 22:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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