User talk:TreesCanTell

Explaining
I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS (talk) 20:19, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Alex Gilbert
DragonflySixtyseven asked me to look into this because I'm a New Zealander.

The sources you have do not appear to meet our criteria set out at WP:RS. They are either not independent of the subject, or are not sufficiently reliable.

Overall, I do not see a claim why this person should be considered notable. The documentary which is to air in February is a human interest story about someone finding their birth parents, but many people have interesting stories such as this and do not meet our inclusion standards. In particular, I don't see that Gilbert meets the criteria given in that link:
 * "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field"

If you are Alex Gilbert, or have a close connection to him, you should also read our guidelines on "conflict of interest".

You are welcome to reply to me on this page.- gadfium 04:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Alex Gilbert for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alex Gilbert is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Alex Gilbert & until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:23, 19 June 2014 (UTC)