User talk:Toarz

Speedy deletion of Gregory Garver
A tag has been placed on Gregory Garver, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which 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 guidelines on spam as well as the Business' FAQ for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Bm gub (talk) 16:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Gregory Garver
A tag has been placed on Gregory Garver 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.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

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. Addison2008 (talk) 08:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Toarz and welcome to Wikipedia. Sorry things have gotten to a rough start for you. A few things:


 * 1) When a page is nominated for speedily deletion, you can slow the process by putting the "hangon" tag on the article itself, NOT on your user talk page.
 * 2) "hangon" doesn't mean the page will not be deleted---it buys you some time to improve the article.
 * 3) I understand that you think Gregory Garver is notable.   As far as the article told me, he was one of the 500,000 real estate agents in America, all of whom can say "I'm a real estate agent; here's my web page; here's how I got in the biz; here's my first deal."   That's a fine thing to have on one's own webpage; it's a fine thing to have on Myspace.com or Linkedin.com.    Why does it belong in an general encyclopedia?   Why is Garver more-encyclopedic than the other 499,999 agents?  Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.   Since Wikipedia is a collaborative project, there are longstanding and generally-agreed-upon guidelines (WP:BIO for example) for when a person is notable enough to get an article.  (If we didn't have such an article, Wikipedia *would* look like MySpace; 270,000,000 regular people would write articles about themselves, and no one would maintain or read them.   This goes double for businesses---we don't want Wikipedia to be used as free ad space for everyone; it'd be a mess, and that's what the rest of the Web is for.)   Please read and obey those guidelines.  Bm gub (talk) 15:47, 15 July 2008 (UTC)