User talk:TheRockHand

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Hello, TheRockHand, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, Allison Crooks, the pages worked on did not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and was not retained.

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In reply to your comment at Talk:Allison Crooks
I am replying here because someone has deleted the article, and the talk page will follow soon. I am sorry you found my reply there accusatory and condescending; I assure you I did not mean to give offence.

Every day many people come to Wikipedia expecting that like Facebook or LinkedIn we would welcome profiles about themselves, their friends, or their companies. I assumed you were another one of those people; I didn’t realize that you knew we were an encyclopedia were trying to write an encyclopedic biography. Among the reasons it seemed unencyclopedic to me: I hope that you like it here (despite a bad start) and that you decide to stay. To help you: Your first article gives an overview of how to create an article. And the Golden rule gives a quick summary of our standard of notability. —teb728 t c 08:33, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Very few YMCA employees are important enough for an encyclopedia article. (Neil Nicoll, the president and CEO of YMCA-USA, would be important enough, but even he doesn’t have an article.) And the article didn’t make any claim that Allison Crooks was important or significant.
 * The question and answer section seemed particularly unencyclopedic—really more like a blog.

I appreciate your followup and apology. I am very disappointed with how Wikipedia conducts itself and essentially plays judge and jury on articles. I believed it to be an open-source format, not an authoritarian iron fist that deletes entire articles purely at some random person's discretion. I completely disagree with the use of "speedy deletion" as it undermines the entire purpose of open-source contribution. I also disagree with the highly subjective term "importance" and "significance". For example, Lee Segel is somehow important because he was a professor and had his name on a few papers? Ekkapan Wannasut is important because he won some Thai singing contest? That article is literally 2 lines of text. It even has a notice about not being notable, yet it's been up since September 2014. It's a joke. It seems Wikipedia only cares about fame or perceived recognition. If you can google somebody and they return published results, that qualifies as important. I was ready to edit the article on Allison Crooks today with proof of significance and importance, but now it's gone. This experience has pushed me away from Wikipedia entirely. TheRockHand (talk) 16:14, 22 July 2015 (UTC)Ryan

Allison Crooks
Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked.

I'm sorry you found my actions incredibly inconsiderate and rude, it was not meant to be so.

If the reply from teb728 doesn't answer your question, let me know at the bottom of my talk page, where I've moved your previous message. Nothing is lost for ever, I can restore the text to a user subpage if it seems that she meets our notability guidelines and you have independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:33, 22 July 2015 (UTC)