User talk:Rellyrell17

Speedy deletion nomination of Poly western marching band


A tag has been placed on Poly western marching band, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article 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 encyclopedia article. 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 article 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 article's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You may freely add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. EmadIV (talk) 17:20, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I deleted the article. You said on the now deleted talk p. "This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because we need to get information about this band so that people will join beacause on wikipedia there is nothing about this band except for one picture with no helping information or background history" But that is exactly what we mean by promotionalism.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia  is for things that are already important, that people will know about already, and come here to look for information about. When your band has reached that degree of importance that there are references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases, then someone not connected with it will come and write the article.

As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest or as a paid press agent, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know.  DGG ( talk ) 18:25, 6 November 2011 (UTC)