User talk:Tim McNeil

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Speedy deletion of Mr. Greeler
A tag has been placed on Mr. Greeler requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Greeler & Fitch
I noticed your Greeler article, and though I had nothing to do with the speedy deletion tag, I agree it should be deleted. The trouble with the subject matter is that it is not really very notable in wikipedia terms - see WP:N for much more on this. It's novel, I grant you. But operas have been written about much odder things than the constitution.

Meanwhile I read your Fitch rant on your user page. You'll probably want to read John Fitch (inventor) to discover that he did indeed take out patents. So that ain't the explanation for being eclipsed by Fulton. The Steamboat article seeks to place the two in the right order and with sufficient context to judge their relative merits. Given those two articles, I'm left wondering what your rant is all about.

But please continue with your wikipedia work. Anyone who seeks to liberate content from google books is on the right track. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:04, 26 March 2009 (UTC)