User talk:Rlteel

Articles for deletion/Robert Teel
Hello. I have flagged this article for potential deletion on the basis of insufficient notability (see WP:NN). If you think this is wrong, please review WP:BLP and make any relevant points on the talk page. Thank you! --Legis (talk - contribs) 06:40, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

helpme

Hi Legis. Please forgive me as I am not very familiar with Wikipedia. I want to check in with you about the deletion of the article about me. As near as I can tell it is based on no notability. While I do not truly understand the criteria I think I get the gist so I wanted to provide the following comments. More than 118,000 thoroughbreds are registered worldwide each year and there are approximately 32,000 owners in North America alone. The number of owners who make it to the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Oaks, and Breeders Cup (twice) and who have been fortunate to have their horses run in Toronto, Hong Kong, and Dubai is miniscule (I would estimate less than .5 percent). I am proud of these accomplishments and understand this may not meet you criteria for notability. Could you let me know how the article could be changed to qualify? I would appreciate it. My account and the article was set up by a colleague of mine and I was tremendously flattered so it is disappointing to see it deleted. Thanks very much for your consideration.

December 27, 2011

Rlteel (talk) 22:12, 27 December 2011 (UTC) rlteel
 * Notability has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia. It is generally about reliable sources, completely unconnected to the topic, writing about it in sufficient detail so that an article with the information from the sources can be written with citations showing where the information (not the words) comes from. Each part of that has meaning. Reliable sources = real world newspapers, magazines, television programs, books, etc.; not youtube, not blogs, not websites with no reputation for fact checking or accuracy. Unconnected = not press releases, not a person's own writing about themselves, not their Facebook page, etc. In detail = Not just passing mention but actual detail about the subject e.g., a mention in passing even in extremely well known sources (The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, etc.) would be insufficient. Does that help?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:38, 28 December 2011 (UTC)