User talk:Will Gotti

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Hello, Will Gotti, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Knonam, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Stickee (talk)  08:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Knonam
A tag has been placed on Knonam requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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 - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page 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 page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Stickee (talk)  08:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Knonam
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Knonam, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.twincitieshiphop.com/artists/knonam.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 10:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Knonam
A tag has been placed on Knonam 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 band or musician, 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 see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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 - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page 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 page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Empty Buffer (talk) 10:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Your question regarding deletion
While you state that you did verify the information, and that's likely true, we require articles to demonstrate that the subject is notable-that is, that the article's subject has already been the subject of substantial coverage in reliable sources not published or influenced by the subject. This gives us a good base of material to work from, and allows any reader of the article to verify any information in the article by looking at the source it is drawn from. It would be quite impractical to expect the band to keep up with such a volume of verifications, if readers or editors needed them, and so we do not allow investigation or interviews by editors to be used as source material.

Since it does not appear that the particular subject in this case has such coverage at all at this time, it is not an appropriate subject for an article (unless you're aware of coverage I'm not finding). If what I can find is all that exists, the article would not be appropriate until and unless more secondary reliable source coverage occurs first. Wikipedia is never the first source to cover something.

If you have any additional questions, or would like some help evaluating sources, please feel free to ask. You can do so on an editor's talk page, such as this one or mine here&mdash;this is generally a preferred method over email of discussing issues that don't involve sensitive topics that would potentially violate someone's privacy. Seraphimblade Talk to me 03:28, 17 July 2010 (UTC)