Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/User:FoamRanger

(The following text was added to the page after the close of the discussion and was moved here by --Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:51, 1 July 2008 (UTC). The discussion is over and any issues should be taken up with the closing deleting admin or WP:DRV.)

FoamRanger Response
We weren't nearly done by months. Yes it's a homebrew club and no it wasn't an advertisement. It wasn't put up as an actual page for a reason.

G11, "Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote some entity and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion." Regarding exclusive self promotion, the article already contained headings and I believe (can't reference the page) links to entities that are not us and in no way controlled by us. As far as being fundamentally rewritten, it wasn't fundamentally written the first time yet. There were 26 years of history to be aggregated. Only the smallest fraction of the headings and links were put in place.

It was my understanding the user page could be used as a sandbox for larger projects. The hope was to spend all the time making the article relevant here before going 'live' with it in the main pages.

In short my arguments:


 * The nature of the article could not be surmised accurately by the small percentage of the page completed


 * The article wasn't being pushed as a full fledged 'live' article as yet


 * The headings presented in the scant material provided recognized outside organizations and was not solely self-promotional or was it meant to be

Speedy Deletion

Pages and media that satisfy certain criteria are speedy deletion candidates, which means that they can be deleted immediately and without discussion. The criteria include pages that contain nonsense, copyright violations and articles that do not satisfy notability guidelines.

Regarding the speedy deletion in which I wasn't even give notice of until it was too late to even copy my material, my page was not full of nonesense, copyright violations and had not been submitted yet for notability criteria for reasons cited above.

I request a copy of the page as it was before deletion and a review of the deletion process.

FoamRanger (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2008 (UTC)FoamRanger