User talk:Jordansy

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Speedy deletion nomination of Canopy Group (disambiguation)
A tag has been placed on Canopy Group (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Yinta ɳ  21:44, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Canopy Group
Hi, I see that another admin has deleted your article. He did so while I was deciding on a best course of action for this article. There were two issues here. First is that there seemed to be little indication in the text of the article on why this group was significant enough to warrant an article. We don't have articles on every small charity, regardless of how ho much good they be doing. Our general rule of thumb, is that if the subject of the article has received attention from third party sources, then it is "notable" enough for an article. If this group has received attention (i.e. write ups in newspapers, magazines, journals, etc), then that would be an indication that the organization should have an article. If you could recreate this article with such references that would be good. To help in this, I have placed the text of the article on your user page, so that you don't have to recreate it.

The second issue is that you misunderstand how disambiguation pages work. A disambiguation page is not an artical itself but rather a pointer to other articles. If, for example, there are several famous people named William Shakespeare. The playwright is much more famous than any of the others, so he gets the main article. To help find the others the article William Shakespeare (disambiguation) was created, but it only points to the other articles. Your article should have been named something like Canopy Group (charity).

If I can be of any help please me a message on my talk page. Dsmdgold (talk) 23:19, 18 May 2009 (UTC)