User talk:Sbower

Guidelines for Conflict Resolution
Thanks for your work here at wikipedia. I'd like to tell you that I am nominating Guidelines for Conflict Resolution for deletion. If you wish to contest this, feel free to remove the "prod" tag, but before you do, please review the policy on no original research and verifiability. Thanks. If you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. ---J.Smith 23:47, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi J. Smith, I'm a newbie to using Wikipedia, but an experienced person in the BDSM world. So, my apologies if this message isn't in the correct place or format.


 * No you put your message int he right place. :)
 * Well, first and formost this is an encyclopedia... so it can't be used as a community page. ---J.Smith


 * It was a welcoming thing to see the first substantial posting I've made (aside from small edits) be treated with a request to delete it within a few minutes of my posting it! :-)


 * Sorry about that. People are quite fast to react when they see something here that dosn't belong. It dosn't have anything to do with the subject.... just the content of the article.


 * My hope was to use the Wiki page as a community write-board where people in the BDSM community could work on developing consensus on conflict resolution on issues specific to our community. In fact, I sent out the link to that page to over 1000 BDSM participants so they could chime and and we could hammer something out.


 * Wikipedia isn't for that kind of thing.


 * So, what do you do in Wikipedia land when there is no published research on a particular topic because there's aren'y many publishing venues which might address the issue. Most published work on BDSM is in medical journals which aren't covering community interactions. In the few books that are published, they don't cover these types of guidelines.


 * You don't do anything... if there is no reliable sources on a subject then the subject then it can't have an article here on wikipedia. (see WP:NOT) ---J.Smith


 * Or, is the basic premise that wikipedia can't be used in this sort of way.


 * Yeah. ---J.Smith


 * Any suggestions on how to proceed, or do you just not care as long as it's not on wikipedia?


 * Sure... start a Wikibook. Its a diffrent but related project. This kind of thing would be acceptable there I think. You know where to find me if you have any more questions. :) ---J.Smith 02:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

delete
Hi, A good way to handle that would be to use the speedy delete tag. Heres an example:  Or something like that. That would mark it for speedy delete and an admin would review it for deleation in short order. ---J.Smith 06:17, 19 April 2006 (UTC)