User talk:Scanderson3

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Proposed deletion of Women's World Games


The article Women's World Games has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Might be better as a list?

While all 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. Pesky ( talk  …stalk!) 12:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

I have prevented the proposed deletion
which doesn't automatically mean that it won't get deleted later, except that I've also expanded the article and added more sources, which should make that far less likely. It is almost always a good idea to start a new article with complete sentences rather than in note form (provided you put in references - but you did that OK). On the other article you have been working on, Ethel Scott - mostly, well done. However, do be aware that other Wikipedia editors want information to be sourced from published sources, and can be expected to delete any part of an article that is only supported by family reminiscences - which in this case is a pity as they provide the most interesting information apart from the actual races and results. With the London Olympics coming up next year, it might be worth seeing if a newspaper or magazine would be willing to publish an article on Ethel Scott with some of this information in it - that article could then be used as a source for the article here. PWilkinson (talk) 19:47, 3 September 2011 (UTC)