User talk:WalkIL01



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Speedy deletion nomination of Walk Across Illinois
A tag has been placed on Walk Across Illinois, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that 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 general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Walk Across Illinois and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --  Phantom Steve  ( Contact Me, My Contribs ) 22:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Removing Speedy at Walk Across Illinois
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Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. - SDPatrolBot (talk) 17:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Walk Across Illinois
Hi. I've deleted this article again, because it appears to be promotional in nature. In this case, it was not written from a neutral point of view, and it relied almost exclusively on its own website for sources (when we require sources to be independent of the subject in order to be considered reliable). It's possible, even likely, that an event of this nature is notable in some way, but there are no sources to indicate that. We need newspaper articles, books, or other reliable sources. Another concern is your username - since your username closely matches that of the subject, it is possible that you have a conflict of interest, and cannot edit objectively on this subject, which is also problematic. Please review our policies before proceeding. If you require further assistance, post helpme on this page and I or another editor will be happy to help. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 18:11, 15 September 2009 (UTC)