User talk:Lucentdiva

Hiya, I've just seen that you tried to improve the Belly dance page, but that your changes have been reverted because the dancers you added didn't have their own Wikipedia pages, so aren't considered 'notable'. Unfortunately this is how the rules work, but please don't be put off of editing in future! I can see that the information you added was good, and the article would probably be better if it could be included.

If you would like to help make the information about bellydance on Wikipedia better, one thing you could do is create new pages for some of the dancers who you tried to add to the list, as they were all very well-known, and you could definitely make a case for at least some of them them being notable enough (see Notability_(people)) that they should have their own pages, if you can find enough information on them. It would then be possible to add them to the 'belly dance' page :)

At the moment a LOT of really famous dancers don't have articles on Wikipedia, meaning they can't be listed on the main 'belly dance' page, including Soheir Zaki as well as most Turkish dancers apart from Didem (and most of the pages that do exist are not very good). I'm gradually working on improving all the bellydance-related info on Wikipedia, including by creating pages on dancers, musical styles, etc that don't exist, but it is a slow and time-consuming process. Any help would be much appreciated! Oddparticle (talk) 08:42, 31 July 2013 (UTC)