User talk:RobLab

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Hello, RobLab, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as The Plaque, Winnipeg, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Proposed deletion of The Plaque, Winnipeg


The article The Plaque, Winnipeg has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Unsourced, no suggestion that this concrete square in a suburban street is at all notable.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. McGeddon (talk) 22:07, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Plaque, Winnipeg
Hello RobLab,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Plaque, Winnipeg for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. D&#39;SuperHero (talk) 06:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of The Plaque, Winnipeg for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Plaque, Winnipeg is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/The Plaque, Winnipeg until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. -- GB fan 11:39, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 03:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

The Plaque
Sorry to hear you feel that you're being "trampled" by a team of experts who aren't giving you a chance to breathe. In reality we're all just WP:VOLUNTEERs who barely know each other and are applying the same simple policy rules from whatever timezone we happen to briefly check in from. We've possibly been a bit terse (and someone certainly should have explained notability policy to you), but an article whose claim to fame seems to be nothing beyond "man extends driveway with concrete, family refers to it by a French name" doesn't require a great deal of counterargument.

WP:ALTERNATIVE has some useful links to other places that can host content, if you want to document your family history somewhere online. --McGeddon (talk) 09:47, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Notability is a clear bright line: Wikipedia's general notability guideline simply requires evidence that the driveway has received "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". If no such sources exist, then the article is inevitably going to be deleted in a day or two, no matter how much detail you're able to provide about the neighbourhood and the city and the cultural context. I'd recommend taking a copy and hosting it somewhere else, and working on it there.
 * Here are a few reasons why it's good for Wikipedia to exist alongside your hardback copy of Brittanica. All article content is also released under a CC-Attribution licence, meaning that educators worldwide can freely reuse article text (and most of the images) in any context at no cost, which is a big deal to me. --McGeddon (talk) 16:22, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm not confusing anything, I'm just using the jargon noun that Wikipedia has decided to use and giving you a link to clarify what I'm talking about. Whatever you want to call it, your driveway doesn't appear to have it. --McGeddon (talk) 18:34, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Plaque, Winnipeg


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as The Plaque, Winnipeg, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. T.C.Haliburtontalk nerdy to me 23:37, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Hoax? really?
Where did that come from? This article may have a lot of terminal problems but a hoax it is not. Come on you guys. What is going on? RobLab (talk) 02:31, 24 December 2015 (UTC)