User talk:WilliamA2C

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Hello, WilliamA2C, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Long Family Tree[edit]

A tag has been placed on Long Family Tree, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. 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.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Corvus cornix_talk 22:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. You are correct that I deleted the page in question -- you may note from the information above that it had been previously tagged for deletion because "it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader". That was the principal reason; others would also have been relevant. Essentially, two experienced editors had no idea what the article was about, and it didn't seem to be about sufficiently notable individuals so to be the subject of an article in an encyclopedia. I admit that sometimes the processes of Wikipedia can be daunting for the newcomer, and I hope that I can provide you with enough information to make it more clear as to what happened here. I think if you read the article at Wikipedia:Why was my article deleted? and the one at Wikipedia:Your first article, you may get more insight about how we work and why things happen here the way they do. If you have any questions about Wikipedia policy, particularly with respect to the policies of notability, reliable sources and verifiability, feel free to leave me another note. Accounting4Taste:talk 22:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]