User talk:Pollyannabeth

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Hello, Pollyannabeth, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Guildford Youth Theatre, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Guildford Youth Theatre


A tag has been placed on Guildford Youth Theatre 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.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Theroadislong (talk) 10:30, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for message. Although you have dealt with the copyright and spam issues, you are not out of the woods yet. GYT has already been tagged for deletion because it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. There is a threshold for notability, otherwise the project would be flooded with people writing pages about themselves, their friend's band etc. There is nothing in your text to suggest that this is notable enough for an encyclopaedia article, it just seems to be one of many amdram groups. To show otherwise you need to show multiple coverage in the press (that means national, not the Guildford and Godalming Advertiser), awards etc, with appropriate references to support the claim.

Good luck, but you may find that it isn't possible to meet the criteria. That's why there is no article about me (:  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  10:50, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help. I will source the verification articles and hopefully this will comply with the wikipedia guidelines. I really appreciate your help as, being new to Wiki, I'm finding it all very complex!Pollyannabeth (talk) 10:55, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Guildford theatre school


A tag has been placed on Guildford theatre school, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You are welcome to edit the page to fix this problem, but please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. As well as removing promotional phrasing, it helps to add factual encyclopaedic information to the page, and add citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. I'm sorry to be the identifier of additional problems, but it also appears that the article text infringes on the copyrighted text at http://thefamilygrapevine.co.uk/guildford-haslemere-farnham/business-listings/guildford-theatre-school/ as well as the school's own website at www.guildfordtheatreschool.co.uk -- both websites assert copyright, and the text of the article appears to be copied from the sites with two sentences added. Given additional tags left by other reviewers, it may be a high hill to climb to keep this page as a wikipedia article, at least in its current form. If you can find short quotes from news articles about the school (use the ref tag for inline citation) and reword the sentences that are directly copied, you'd then have a case for appealing speedy deletion. I hope this helps since I'm sure it probably stings a little. Dictioneer (talk) 03:04, 28 February 2013 (UTC)