User talk:PaBlade

Memorial Middle School for Girls has been nominated for deletion. There is grave concern that it violates copyrights since it sounds like you took it from the school's promo materials.

DO NOT REMOVE AFD WHILE IT IS ACTIVE   IT SAYS SO ON THE TEMPLATE   IT IS VANDALISM TO DO SO
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing.

A tag has been placed on Memorial Middle School for Girls - Harrisburg, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- R OGER  TALK 14:14, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Memorial Middle School for Girls - Harrisburg
Please explain why you regard this as "blatent advertising", what changes need to be made to avoid deletion. PaBlade PaBlade 14:57, 27 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. My reactions?
 * It reads like a prospectus (Who are we? etc)
 * It needs re-writing from a neutral point of view, in the third person.
 * It need to be attributed to a reliable source and to establish notability.
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the content needs to be encyclopedic in tone and content.


 * All the best, -- R OGER  TALK 15:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

The hang on notice is not binding - this was clearly promotional material, not an encyclopaedia article, and was therefore eligible for speedy deletion. Although a reference was given, the information in the article was not present in the source, so it also fails on the reliable source and notability criteria. There is also an article Memorial Middle School for Girls which redirects to the Harrisburg article. If you need the deleted text, it is here Jimfbleak 18:32, 27 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, and I've now found this which makes this begin to look like a bad faith attempt to avoid the AfD decision. Jimfbleak 18:38, 27 July 2007 (UTC)