User talk:Vashti Adora

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Speedy deletion nomination of Joe Overstreet


A tag has been placed on Joe Overstreet 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 credibly 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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 * The problem is that you haven't given any indication why this man should be in the encyclopedia. The nearest is "He briefly worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios during the mid 1950’s" but that doesn't amount to much. The standard format for a Wikipedia article is that it starts off "Joe Overstreet (born nnnn) is a ..." and tells us in what capacity he was someone we would want to read about. Don't start the article with his life history, as you did here! There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey. Happy editing. Pam  D  17:32, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I've now found, very easily, several articles showing that he is an artist and providing Reliable Sources from which the article could be developed - such as http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ey-exhibition-world-goes-pop/artist-biography/joe-overstreet. Usually I'd add this to the article and expand it. But you seem to be doing this as a college project, so I'm not going to: you need to learn how to make a Wikipedia article, and your instructor should have given you much better direction than he/she seems to have done. Good luck. Pam  D  17:36, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

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