User talk:Oxnardgirl

Welcome!
Hello, Oxnardgirl, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is LiAnna and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Proposed deletion of Ilien Guadalupe Tolteca


The article Ilien Guadalupe Tolteca has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "subject is not notable and does not pass WP:ARTIST"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. asilvering (talk) 13:47, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Ilien Guadalupe Tolteca for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ilien Guadalupe Tolteca is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ilien Guadalupe Tolteca until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. asilvering (talk) 21:56, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Welcome, and suggestions
Ok, as promised, hello again, this time on your talk page. I'm sorry you're having such a bumpy welcome to Wikipedia-at-large! I know it's discouraging to see your hard work being nominated for deletion, especially at the end of a term that's felt so harsh for so many people (I hope you've been doing ok). Many articles do survive the Articles for Deletion process (WP:AFD), often because other editors jump in to help with finding sources and rewriting tricky spots. Unfortunately in the case of this article I don't think there's extra work that can be done to save it, because you haven't written a "bad" article; you've just picked a subject who doesn't meet notability guidelines. (At least, so I think - as does the other editor to comment so far.) That's rough.

Some of these guidelines are pretty simple, but in general it can be hard to understand what makes something "notable" or not when you're starting out. If you want to continue editing Wikipedia articles, my suggestion would be that you try enlarging articles that already exist as stubs. It's possible that the subject of an already-extant stub isn't notable, and the article hasn't been deleted because no one's noticed yet, but there are many, many articles of very clearly notable people in Wikipedia that are only a few lines long. If you're interested in working on more Chicana artists, you might try looking for stubs in one of these categories: Category:Hispanic and Latino American artists or Category:Chicana feminists. (I haven't checked these for a promising stub myself, though.)

You might also be interested in WP:WPWIR, which is a WikiProject focused on improving the coverage of women on Wikipedia. They have lists of notable women who don't have Wikipedia pages yet, and you can help out with newly created articles there too. They're friendly and helpful, and they're good at welcoming new editors. Good luck! I hope you stick around. -- asilvering (talk) 23:04, 14 December 2021 (UTC)