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Speedy deletion nomination of Elizabeth Collins: writer, teacher, blogger


A tag has been placed on Elizabeth Collins: writer, teacher, blogger, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Elizabeth Collins: writer, teacher, blogger and leave a note on |the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Clovis Sangrail (talk) 01:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Firstly to prevent the article from being speedily deleted, you'll need to put the  tag in it, below the deletion notice. (I'll write more below, but its worth doing that now as it often needs to be done quickly) Clovis Sangrail (talk) 01:40, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Improving the article
The article as it stands now reads in a very promotional manner, and includes information that is non-neutral and opinionated. It should be presented as a biography and make no statements that belong in a resume. Firstly, the page appears to be autobiographical and written by someone with a conflict of interest, both potentially issues as wikipedia should be neutral (see WP:CONFLICT and WP:AB. It also contains material that cant be verified from sources - Original research WP:OR, (eg. by providing dates of things added or removed from blogs). Biographies should be written in a factual encyclopedic manner and so everything must be verifiable from neutral sources.  Also to be retained in wikipedia there must be evidience of why the individual is notable.  The most obvious problem with the page that I see is the clear bias evidence by the use of unquantifiable terms (Highly skilled, Personable, humorous, intelligent, accomplished, and energetic) as well as opinionated material that is could be construed as libellous if not verified (eg. Inaccurate, biased “opinion” pieces slandering Collins and indirectly calling for violence against liberals). This material does not belong in an encyclopedia unless it can be factually based.  As it stands the article is not in a biographical form and is written in promotional language which is not suited for an encyclopedia (eg Wilkie_Collins). Clovis Sangrail (talk) 01:54, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I deleted the article. We interpret promotional more widely than that--this is intended to promote her career, not to provide information. There are also problems with WP:BLP and WP:NPOV and WP:SOAPBOX. The above editor has explained it very well. Since there are sources, it might be possible to write a short neutral article. But please see WP:ONEEVENT--I am not sure these article will be acceptable even if the above requirements are met.

I also note that this username can be seen as promotional--please choose another.  DGG ( talk ) 02:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)