User talk:Pacemaker11

Your new articles
Thanks for starting some new articles but the best way to do so is to take a similar player's page and change it. That way you can learn about infoboxes, categories, wikilinking, section headings and the Manual of Style. Also, when you created the Bennell page, did you notice the pink box saying that it had been previously deleted? Just after the draft a bunch of new articles were proposed for deletion, as they didn't satisfy the notability guidelines, in that these players hadn't played professionally yet. The only pages that survived were those that had numerous non-trivial references. A listing on the AFL webpage isn't enough - you need something like a feature story on realfooty.com.au or foxsports.com.au or similar. So the Bennell article could be deleted at any time under the Criteria for Speedy Deletion, Recreation rule. I asked for the page to be userfied and hence I have a draft of it at User:The-Pope/Jamie Bennell, ready for recreation if he makes his debut, or gets more media coverage to make him notable. Until then, that's about all we can do. The deletionists have their rules and simply don't consider being drafted important enough to automatically deserve an article. Keep contributing and editing, and don't get too upset by this... the key is references. Of all of the hundred links in the box above, I'd read the rules on notability, reliable sources and deletion first so that you understand what the requirements are. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 05:33, 24 January 2009 (UTC)