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Proposed deletion of The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race


The article The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This article is an a review of an article and therefore fails WP:NOTESSAY.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —Waldhorn (talk) 04:47, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Worst Mistake article
Hi! I saw that you uploaded an essay for the entry on the Diamond article. This was unusable because it was a personal essay, but I wanted to ask if you might want to help with the article in other ways. Specifically I was wondering if you would like to paraphrase "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race", summarizing it in 1-2 paragraphs. The difficulty in this is that you'd have to summarize it in layman's terms for readers coming in that would be unfamiliar with the subject matter as well as remaining neutral in tone. I'm willing to help out where I can, but I'm figuring that you're a student of this subject matter and would probably enjoy summarizing it more than I would. It's a fascinating topic, but you probably are a bit more aware of the nuances than I am. Also, if you know of any other sources that give an in-depth look into Diamond's article, I'd definitely appreciate them. Best place to put them for now would be to list them on the talk page for the article so we can go over them together. Discerning between sources can be sort of confusing when you're new to Wikipedia and discussing potential sources on the talk page would be a good move for now. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   07:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC)