User talk:Rleffler

February 2007
All contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to User:Vegaswikian may be offensive or unwelcome. In case you are the user, please login under that account and proceed to make the changes. Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do, particularly to userpages. Take a look at our introduction page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 06:36, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your concerns
Thanks for that. While I wasn't involved in the deletion decision, I did write an essay that tries to "demystify" some of the alphabet soup with that, you can find it here. (That's a problem, I know, I'm also working on a newbie's guide in general. The trouble, of course, is getting new users to actually read it.) We do have a significant problem with promotional and spam articles, and unfortunately we don't catch them all. Users are allowed to talk about themselves on their userpages, though. It's main encyclopedia articles that are required to be neutral, neither promotional nor an attack piece, but providing a balanced, factual encyclopedic overview of the subject.

What you may want to do, is ask the admin who deleted it (I presume it was Vegaswikian?) to "userfy" the deleted article for you, that is, place it into a subpage of your userpage. (Nothing's ever lost forever, admins can undelete articles.) There's no obligation for an admin to do this, but unless the article was potentially libelous or a copyright violation they almost always will. I'll be happy to help you find some secondary sources and write the article in a neutral tone, and it'll be ready to go back into mainspace before you know it. If you'd like me to make the request, I can do that, just contact me on my talk. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 03:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)