User talk:Thelittleblackfish

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Hello, Thelittleblackfish, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Kate Pedigo, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  PK T (alk)  18:21, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
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Proposed deletion of Kate Pedigo


The article Kate Pedigo has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article. &#32; The nominator also raised the following concern:
 * All biographies of living people created after March 18, 2010, must have references.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one.  PK T (alk)  18:21, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Kate Pedigo


A tag has been placed on Kate Pedigo, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page 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 acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You are welcome to edit the page to fix this problem, but please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. As well as removing promotional phrasing, it helps to add factual encyclopaedic information to the page, and add citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Hairhorn (talk) 21:39, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Advice
You asked for advice on making an article about Kate Pedigo. In order to avoid speedy deletion before it is complete, it would be best to work on a draft in your "user space", and indeed you have one already at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kate Pedigo. That is what you should work on.

However, what is there now is nothing like an encyclopedia article, but seems to be rather rambling reminiscences by the subject; the article just deleted was largely the same, and the rest was written in a very informal and promotional style.

I advise you to delete what is in the draft article now, and start from scratch. Before you start, read WP:Your first article and then, as advised there, gather your references. You need references for two reasons: What you write should be in a reasonably formal style, explaining what she has achieved, and should maintain a neutral point of view. If you try to "sell" or promote your subject, the article will not be accepted. Think of yourself not as writing for her, but as writing for Wikipedia about her.
 * The Verifiability policy is that: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source." This is particularly important for articles about living people, which will be automatically deleted after ten days if unreferenced. Personal knowledge or private papers are not a good enough basis for an encyclopedia article.
 * Wikipedia is selective about article subjects: the inclusion criterion is called Notability and requires references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." More at WP:Notability (people), particularly the section WP:CREATIVE, and WP:Notability (summary).

There is some more advice about writing biographies at WP:BTIP. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:41, 12 June 2013 (UTC)