Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Tretter Collection

As the Chair of the Tretter Collection Advisory Board, I wish to know a few things about this.

First, can the identity of the person who completely rewrote this article recently be established? The article was much larger, more comprehensive and more relevant a few weeks ago than it is now. I know; I wrote it.

Second, what's a "Google" test?

Third, what's considered a sufficient "source" for the material? In previous versions of this article, I cited myself as the source and gave references to both my contact information and to contact information for the library and the University.

We are not "advertising" anything except our existence. We don't sell anything as we're part of a public library. We're also hardly non-relevant as were arguably the largest University affiliated research archive of GLBT related materials in the world. While others may have social disagreement with GLBT people and issues, much as some GLBT people have social disagreement with non GLBT people, we have the right to let people know about the archive. We are not promoting anything here, except that the archive exists. As we like to say, in the Archive, there is no right wing or left wing, just the whole bird, sitting quietly on a shelf for the researcher to read, analyze and make judgments about.

Certainly, that is note-worthy and is worthy of mention in an encyclopedia.

I would appreciate insight into the questions above and look forward to a constructive discussion.

Regards,

James G.

74.36.102.45 (talk) 20:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * See WP:CITE, WP:V, and WP:COI. GreenJoe 03:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)