Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Resources for WEP Region 9 faculty & students

What's the problem with this page???
Look at the first section of my user page Talk page. It's a "how to" for a newbie. Wanna delete that too? Wikipedia is FULL of articles directed to newbies and others, about how to edit Wikipedia. They serve a good purpose. Here's just one entry in this first section: How to write a great article. No howtos in Wikipedia, eh? Better check that out a bit. I could fill this page with links to howtos in Wikipedia.

The material that you propose to delete is ALSO a howto - same topic as that in the first section of my Talk page (which I obviously didn't put there), but it has more detail, and references materials in the WikiMedia Bookshelf. This is special material for special people, and not easy to find.

If you'd bothered to glance at my user page, where the link to the offending page is found, you'd see that it is aimed at faculty and students in Region 9 of the Wikipedia Global University Program, for which I am the Wikipedia Regional Ambassador. The whole purpose of this project is to bring Wikipedia to higher education, and students to Wikipedia - as editors. So...LEAVE MY PAGE ALONE, please.

I don't get it. Since I started here, I've had material on my user TALK page which is just a collection of editing documentation, basically. I now create a new page, addressing not myself but some people I supposed to serve, and support as newbies at Wikipedia, and add some more of this material, and suddenly I'm in trouble? It'a user page, not a page in Wikipedia!

I think you need to explain YOUR reasoning, please.

Tom Cloyd (talk) 07:59, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem with the page its that in its article space, where actual articles on various subjects go, not help guides, which go in wikipedia space, i.e. pages where the title starts "Wikipedia:"-- Jac 16888 Talk 08:18, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I am not the proposer, but there are other venues on Wikipedia to host this sort of information outside the article mainspace. Judging by the material, I think this better belongs on WP:ESSAYS, which allows for Wikipedia-related projects / topics that are unofficial, but might be helpful to users wishing to edit.  I initially discussed that the page should be deleted, but I think you should consider making this an essay or a help guide that Jac mentioned above. I, Jethrobot drop me a line 08:19, 16 July 2011 (UTC)