User talk:Quashiorkor

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Speedy deletion nomination of Clay Bank park


A tag has been placed on Clay Bank park, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Contested deletion of Clay Bank park
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here) --Quashiorkor (talk) 20:17, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

In the same way that the Wiki for Algonquin Park is not promotional. In the same way that the Wiki for any Park funded by tax dollars is not promotional. This is a Wiki for a publicly run and owned park.
 * Hello. I went ahead and deleted Clay Bank park as unambiguously promotional, but I wanted to address your contested deletion statement, so I have copied it here.
 * Whether or not an article is promotional is not about the topic being written about, but about the way it is written. What you wrote for Clay Bank park included language such as "encourages learning experiences within its natural setting and has as one of its main objectives to serve as an educational incubator site."  Roughly half the article consisted of a list of "features" with no prose narration about them or indication of why they were important.  The article also only cited one non-affiliated source (the township's website is not independent, and the third source was a map with a list of insects observed there, but no prose about the park.
 * Let me know if you have questions.

~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 21:11, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I shall try again. I found an additional source. The intent is informational. Quashiorkor (talk) 21:29, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I reccomend you try writing it in draft space and send it through articles for creation when it is ready. Try to have at least 3 independant sources. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 21:37, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry I published it. Happy to send it the other way if you still think it requires work. Thanks for your assistance. Last thing I want is to create propaganda. Quashiorkor (talk) 21:51, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Clay Bank park moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to Clay Bank park. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it needs more sources to establish notability and it has too many problems of language or grammar. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

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 * Will try. But there are at least three different published sources here.
 * This one - just one example - has NO sources but seems to have had no issues on Wiki...
 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_and_Wildlife_Discovery_Center Quashiorkor (talk) 01:07, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep. That article is pretty old (2010).  There was a time when the vast majority of articles were created without citing sources, and citations were only required for quotations, material likely to be challenged, and material about living persons.  Even now in the current version of policy, WP:WHYCITE, that's the only time specific in-line citations are required.  However, if you compare the version from 2010 to the current version (this link lets you see what has changed), you will see a significant watering down of the language that lead people to believe that was the only situations in which they should cite.
 * More important for the purposes of retaining an article than the when to cite language is the general notability guideline. That states that "A topic is  to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received  in  that are ."  The language of that policy has also changed some in the last 13 years, but the heart of it remains the same.  The difference is how the community tends to interpret it.  The community has gradually shifted away from an interpretation that such sources needed to exist towards an interpretation that such sources need to be actually cited in the article.  The reason is that people were taking advantage; creating articles about topics which were essentially unverifiable and then hand waiving about "I'm sure there are sources around somewhere."
 * There have been attempts to codify this shift in policy (one of them is currently being discussed), the problem is what to do with very old articles that pre-date this shift (such as the one for Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center). There are hundreds of thousands of them.  There are people picking away at them to work on either sourcing or deleting them, but it is time consuming work that is difficult to find people willing to volunteer to do. However, in the mean time, pretty much everyone agrees that new articles have to cite sources to demonstrate that they meet the GNG.
 * If you would like to help find sources for articles like the one on Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center, join us at WikiProject Unreferenced articles to help chip away at that backlog. But for new articles remember, just because other sub-par articles exist doesn't mean they are precedent to allow new sub-par articles. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 13:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your robust answer. Thanks. Quashiorkor (talk) 19:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Clay Bank park
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