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Speedy deletion nomination of Alan fall


A tag has been placed on Alan fall requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding  at the top of the article, immediately below the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate), and providing your reasons for contesting on the article's talk page, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. You may freely add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

You may want to read the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:08, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Alan fall
I have declined the speedy deletion nomination of Alan fall, as the article does make a claim of significance. However, the article does not give any references to sources of its information, and so I have tagged it for a proposed deletion. This does not mean that the article can be deleted at any time, as the speedy deletion nomination did. You have ten days to provide sources, and if you can do so then you can remove the deletion proposal notice. To see what sort of thing is required have a look at the following guidelines: WP:GNG, WP:MUSIC, and WP:RS. Also WP:BIO is relevant. I am sorry there are so many of these guidelines, which can be really confusing for a beginner at editing Wikipedia. You don't have to read and learn every detail of all these guidelines before you edit, but you should at least have a quick look to get an idea of what is involved.

If you can find suitable sources then you need to add references to them to the article. Citing sources gives full instructions on this, but my advice is to not look at that yet. There is far too much information there, and it can be hopelessly confusing to a beginner (it was really daunting to me when I first edited Wikipedia). All you need to know for now is: If you do a lot of Wikipedia editing you may eventually want to learn further details of how to cite sources, but for now that should be enough. Please feel welcome to contact me on my tlk page if you have further questions. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:49, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) At the point in the article where a particular source gives evidence for what the article says, write . ("The details of the source" can be a url for an online source, or publishing details of a printed source.)
 * 2) You also need to have  where you want a list of the references to appear. I have done this for you, but I am mentioning it for future use if you need to know ho to do this.

January 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Alan fall has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.myspace.com/alanfall. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 13:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh dear. You try to add sources, and that happens. You can have a look at External links if you like, but for present purposes the most important thing is that such things as MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia, where anyone can write, are not reliable sources. Do have a look at [{WP:RS]] if you haven't already done so. One other thing that I forgot to include in the message above. If you add a "hangon" tag to an article you should still leave the speedy deletion tag there too. That is to say, the "hangon" accompanies it, rather than replacing it. In this case that is irrelevant, as I have declined the speedy deletion anyway, but you may need to know in the future. Also, I will remove the hangon you have put there now, as it applies only to speedy deletion, and at present the article is not nominated for speedy deletion. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Just one more comment, and then I will leave you. When XLinkBot removes an unacceptable link, it does so by reverting the whole of your most recent edits, so often perfectly good content is lost too. I have not carefully checked all of the content that was removed, but it may well be that a lot of it could go back in. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)