User talk:Missions fan

AfD Nomination: Missional
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem to me that Missional meets these criteria, I have started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Missional. Don't forget to add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last five days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, an administrator will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  04:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Help me
Missions fan 00:50, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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helpme

I put my question in and then it was gone.

Our article has been listed for deletion and other than editing the article, is there anything else we can be doing to be proactive in avoiding deleting or getting more time for editing. There are several of us and I am not sure we can get all editing done in 5 days.
 * You can try and convince the users at the Articles for deletion entry for the article you created that it would be beneficial to the Encyclopedia. If the article is about a non-notable subject, then there is not much you can do. Ryūlóng 00:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Missional
Hello, I have a challenge for you on your way to being a future administrator. You have marked a page a few of us are working on to be previewed for deletion. I don't know if you found the content offensive, you wanted to get a certain number of recommendations under your belt, or if you felt like the very article itself was hopeless.

I would like to ask you to advocate on our behalf for time to edit the articles to Wikipedia standards. I have notified the other contributors but I do not know each person's accessibility to email over the weekend.

Then you can "watch it" and if we do nothing or fail to edit to the community standards...you will have a very strong case for deletion and will look fair and wise all at the same time.

Would you consider this? --Missions fan 04:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Offended? No, that would be a first! I'm not religious, but I don't discriminate on Wikipedia against those who write about it impartially. But yes, Wikipedia's administration applicants need to have an extensive history of doing the bureaucratic work that keeps this site going, so yes, reviewing articles for deletion is part of the job (and my reasoning in line with Wikipedia policy and conduct towards others will be reviewed in future). Anyway, to be honest I do feel that the article is somewhat hopeless because like Goandtellallyoucan has pointed out, it seems to be reinventing the wheel in that the Mission (Christian) article already covers the topic well in an impartial manner that is to be expected in an encyclopedia. On the other hand, this article appears to be preaching on how best to be a missionary -- not exactly a topic that can be written about objectively since it all depends on how each writer individually interprets the Bible. I simply can't see anyway how any of your writers can convey the information you wish to add to this encyclopedia while maintaining a neutral point of view. Anyway, due to the lack of opinions submitted by other reviewers, I would think there will be at least week before a consensus is reached by the Articles for Deletion team. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  15:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)