User talk:MissSpanks

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Speedy deletion nomination of /Nonclassical
A tag has been placed on /Nonclassical 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 an organization or company, 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 organizations and companies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Helpme template at New contributors' help page
Hi, you placed a helpme template at New contributors' help page. Actually those templates are for use on your user talk page (i.e. here). So, what is the problem? I'll see if I can help. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:21, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * In case I'm not here to see your question when you are back: If you still need help with something, please explain what you need help with. You can either ask your question at New contributors' help page, or you can ask it here on this page, and also put helpme on this page, to attract someone's attention. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:43, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm having trouble working out how to show that my article is about a 'notable' subject. There are plenty of references about it in mainstream press (e.g. here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4121930.ece and here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/arts/music/20gabr.html) but I'm not sure how to insert references, or if they are appropriate.

Ok, I've entered some references - do you know if I've done them appropriately and whether they will suffice to make the article 'notable'?


 * Hi MissSpanks,
 * Not sure how much of this you already understand, so forgive any unintended patronizing:
 * As you can see above, someone marked the article for "speedy" deletion
 * User:Master of Puppets, and administrator, declined to "speedily" delete the article here, and offered to come back later and help clean it up.
 * If an article is not speedily deleted, it can still be deleted as a result of a deletion discussion, called (in wiki-lingo) an "AFD"; there are no truly hard and fast rules in such a discussion, but it's mostly people trying to come to a consensus for whether the article meets the notability guidelines or not. So, I can't tell you myself whether the references you added are "enough".
 * However, my strong suspicion is that yes, they are enough. No one has even proposed an AFD at this point; if they do, you'll be notified and have at least 7 days to participate in the discussion. My gut feeling is, no one is going to do that with the references you've added, but I've been wrong before.
 * Yes, you added the references appropriately. The article still has some cleanup issues (per the tag at the top of the page), but that's not going to be a reason to delete it. The whole point of being a wiki is that now the entire community can come by and cleanup/expand/tweak the article to make it better.
 * Hope at least some of this helps. Congrats on your first article, and thanks for contributing here.  Let me (or anybody, really) know if you have ny more questions. --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your help. However, I'm still confused; on my Watchlist page it now says: '(Deletion log); 05:26. . SchuminWeb (talk | contribs) deleted "/Nonclassical" (Speedy deleted per CSD R3, was a redirect based on an implausible typo. using TW)' Does this mean the article has been deleted already? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.248.223.85 (talk) 15:44, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * No, it just means someone moved the article to Nonclassical, which automatically leaves behind a redirect at /Nonclassical. Then an admin deleted /Nonclassical (the one with the extra /) as general cleanup.  Your article is alive and well. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)