User talk:TylerJamesMackey

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Speedy deletion nomination of Curtis paradis


A tag has been placed on Curtis paradis requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Your request for undeletion
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Curtis Paradis. JohnCD (talk) 10:21, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Curtis Paradis
This page has been created so many time now that the title has been salted - protected against creation, so you will have to get permission from an admin before it can be created again. I see you have started an "Articles for Creation" page at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Curtis Paradis, and you can edit that and re-submit it, but it needs a complete rewrite.

Start by reading WP:Your first article. The measure Wikipedia uses to decide who shall have an article is called notability and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing references to: "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought him important and significant enough to write substantial comment about? See WP:Notability (summary) for what that means.

Achievements you listed like "Has his own website" and "Attended many EA events" are meaningless - anyone can have their own website, lots of people go to EA events, anyone can post on Youtube. You have to explain why he is important and interesting enough for encyclopedia readers to want to know about him. The award is more useful, if you can find a reliable source for it.

First collect independent references about him. If you can't find them, that probably means he is not notable in Wikipedia's sense, and in that case I advise you to read WP:AMOUNT and consider trying some other subject.

Read WP:Your first article again. Don't try to promote him; write in a neutral tone, listing what he has achieved that is remarkable, with references to WP:Verify it. Leave out all the stuff about his life story: (a) you're not likely to have a reliable, published source for it, which is what Wikipedia requires for WP:Verifiability, and (b) it's not interesting. Tens of thousands of people have a very similar life-story; so what. If you wants to publish all that, try somewhere like Myspace or Facebook, it is not "encyclopedic". Just write about what he has achieved that makes him different from ten thousand other Youtubers.

Don't write With A Capital Letter At The Start Of Every Word - only the first word of a sentence and proper nouns like names.

When you have done, the draft page has a link to resubmit it to WP:Articles for creation when it is ready, where an experienced user will look at it and give you feedback.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:22, 25 June 2013 (UTC)