User talk:Smith dg

August 2008
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A tag has been placed on Benevolent funipendulous society of nova scotia logotechnicians requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:08, 23 August 2008 (UTC)



I have to confess, I am somewhat at a loss as to how to do things on Wikipedia. I have some computer knowledge, enough to figure out how to do a citation to a web page or another article, but the minutiae seem to be defeating me. And despite several pursuits of untamed geese through the hinterlands of the Wikipedia Help Pages, I am still confused and woefully uninformed. I am even unsure as to how to go about leaving questions on someone's "talk" page! Although Wikipedia has pages that undoubtedly tell me how to go about these things, they seem to be so prolific and cross-referential that I have difficulty zeroing in on just the right thing.

The deleted article Benevolent Funipendulous Society of Nova Scotia Logotechnicians was cited for not being sufficiently "notable". But, short of launching a media campaign in an effort to gain publicity (or notoriety), what can one do? We have been mentioned by at least one other website (Halifax Explosion, as noted in the article; more specifically, http://www.halifaxexplosion.org/biblio/biblio17.html) and have been interviewed on CBC Radio and mentioned in a couple of newspaper articles, but these occurred before the days of online blogs (or even widespread e-mails), and I cannot recall the dates when these occurred, or give citations. I daresay that other clubs and societies with more than 25 years under their belts are in a similar situation. Sometimes I wonder that we can be deemed to "exist" at all in the age of the Web.

A Google search for "Funipendulous Society" will locate our web page (curently) in the first page of results. Strangely, a similar search for "Benevolent Funipendulous Society" does not, but I attribute this to a failure of my knowledge as the Society's webmaster in not adequately understanding Google's search criteria.

Dr. David Jones (cited in the article) has informed me that he subtitled one of his papers with "Originally presented to the Benevolent Funipendulous Society of Nova Scotia Logotechnicians", but so far I have not been able to find any online references to this; I am in contact with Dr. Jones and hope to have more data on this paper soon. Smith dg (talk) 22:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Does the Funipendulous Society get any attention in the press?
Hello Smith dg. Though many of the members of the society are notable, the society may not be. Any press mentions of the society itself might justify keeping the article. If you can think of anything, please add it to the article. Let me know if you need any technical help with article formatting. Thanks. EdJohnston (talk) 17:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Benevolent Funipendulous Society of Nova Scotia Logotechnicians
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 * If you do have any additional references or reasons why this is a notable event please provide and discuss, thanks - Hunting dog (talk) 21:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)