User talk:RIP Grandpa 1937-2012

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Hello, RIP Grandpa 1937-2012, 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 Peter Latham (born 1937), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Peter Latham (born 1937)


The article Peter Latham (born 1937) has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article. &#32; The nominator also raised the following concern:
 * All biographies of living people created after March 18, 2010, must have references.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. SwisterTwister  talk  01:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello RIP Grandpa 1937-2012. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Peter Latham (born 1937), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. SwisterTwister  talk  01:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Peter Latham (born 1937)


A tag has been placed on Peter Latham (born 1937), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

could be an attack, could be vandalism but the prose relates to a person on a completly different name who did decease on 02/02/2012

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Your edits
I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather's death, but Wikipedia is not a memorial. For an article to merit inclusion on Wikipedia, WP:N must be met. There are other sites on the Internet for this purpose, such as http://www.findagrave.com/, to suit what you want to do.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  02:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Couple of things you may be interested in
Hello, Mr Latham. Wikipedia's notability criteria for footballers says that only players who have appeared in a fully professional league (there's a list at WP:FPL) qualify for an article. So we shouldn't be creating pages for players who haven't played above the Belgian Second Division, for instance. And the policy on copyright violation makes it clear that for legal reasons we can't copy lumps of text direct into articles. Good to see that your more recent creations aren't just made of copypastes from club websites. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:50, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

February 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Grégoire Neels, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Struway2 (talk) 23:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)