User talk:Qarban

Your undoing of the redirect from the old Tejas Club article page to a section at the UT-Austin article has been reverted. The redirect was done as a result of an article for deletion discussion, and therefore should not be undone without a full, formal deletion review process. I can tell you now, given my own experience with deletion reviews, that a review of this article would almost certainly fail. Please do not undo this redirect again. Doing so would be disruptive, and likely result in your editing privileges being blocked. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 01:02, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Tejas
Hi, I've got to be honest and say that I think the chances of this coming back from the dead are slim. However, if you are determined then there are several things worth doing.


 * read up on Wikipedia policies, and in particular WP:Notability. Bear in mind that notability is not "inherited", ie: just become someone notable went there does not make it notable in its own right. Although there a many policies, notability and verifiability top the list every time (and in that order). Also, if you cannot provide sources that comply with the WP:Reliable policies then forget it - and it is no good quoting from Tejas-generated material for that so you'll need to find alternatives (even campus newspapers etc would be ok for some points but you need something a bit meatier than that to really assert your point)
 * create a page in your own userspace to work on a draft of a new article
 * look at other similar articles which haven't been deleted. I don't understand these frat houses etc cos we don't have them here in the UK, but clearly some are either slipping under the deletionists' radar or they genuinely qualify as notable etc. See if you can work out what you need to do from what they did, bearing in mind the policies listed above
 * at some point, probably at least six to eight weeks away, you could go for a deletion review. You are going to need that long to do all the things above (honest, you will)
 * in the interval, keep an eye on current deletion reviews - watch the debate & pick up tips about what you're likely to need to address, what you are likely to need to include in your proposal to the review etc.
 * before actually making a formal proposal to the review, go through the editor review process. There is a page somewhere (forgotten right now but it will come back to me) where you can post a message asking for a very experienced editor to take a look at your work and give a critique on it. They're usually very constructive and, in any event, would build your confidence for the main review should it get that far.

It could be all for nothing, of course. But out of it will come a good understanding of how WP works and that is never a bad thing because you can apply it to other articles even if Tejas gets knocked on the head. - Sitush (talk) 07:29, 19 February 2011 (UTC)