User talk:SORALmyspace

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Heya. Here's a comment that's probably not what you expected.

First, I have to apologise a bit. I deleted the Myspace U.S. politics forum article, mostly because I made a small blunder. The article was vandalised and I deleted it on grounds of being an attack page. However, I can restore the page but didn't, because, on another look, it is speedy-deletable material afterall: about a non-notable group of people (Criterion A7 for speedy deletion). (I suppose this happens. I promise to be more vigilant in future. =)

Applicability of A7 can be debatable, but I suppose this saves time: I have to remind that generally, sub-forums of bigger websites aren't really notable in itself, and have been frequently deleted. You may want to consider updating the MySpace article instead, and tell about their forums and so on.

The deleted article also suffered from a tone problem which would have meant it would be needed to be completely rewritten anyway: Wikipedia content must be verifiable and neutral. For example: "The diversity is unmatched by any other forum on the internet." the obvious retort to that is, oh really, and where is your source that proves that claim - a peer-reviewed research paper would be nice? =) Wikipedia is not for statements that can't be backed up by evidence, I'm afraid.

So, I hope this won't be problematic. I apologise if this was a harsh blow, but, well, hope you understand that we're all learning and everyone makes small mistakes at first. All I'm here saying is that you probably want to take a cursory look at the Wikipedia rules before you start creating new articles or anything. Creating an article is surprisingly difficult.

Finally, happy editing, and no hard feelings? =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 20:07, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

On a second thought, I restored the article and put it up for Articles for Deletion, just for the sake of due process. =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 20:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)