User talk:LaurenMayer

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Hello, LaurenMayer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Fiona St. Claire, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Fiona St. Claire
Hi. Welcome, again. I gather that this article was part of an attempt to establish a "background" for a fictional character in something being published on-line. Sorry, but Wikipedia doesn't do fiction: one of our fundamental principles is verifiability. So an article like that gets checked: best-selling author? Look up her and her works in Google Books or Worldcom. No trace - that's funny. Does the article cite references? Yes. Do they confirm what the article says? No, they are completely irrelevant - it's (weary sigh) yet another hoax article. Out it goes.

Even if the article had made clear that it was about a fictional character, I do not think it would have met our notability requirement, which requires showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 14 June 2010 (UTC)