User talk:Aquabanianskakid

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Cameron Earl

Please do not remove text from an article without stating as legitimate reason in your edit summary. When you added the speedy deletion template, you also removed my good faith edits, including the reference section. I assume this was inadvertent and not just vandalism. I am declining the speedy A7 request because there is a claim of notability. I have doubts of the actual notability because I find nothing about the person at Google News archive, which should have included at least the one story cited in the article. You might wish to Prod the article or AFD it. Regards. Edison (talk) 19:19, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

I accidentally removed your edits. I'm new to this and am not quite sure what you mean by "Prod the article or AFD it".

Aquabanianskakid (talk)

Those are ways to get an article deleted. See WP:PROD and WP:AFD. Not sure if that was your intent. Edison (talk) 20:47, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I understand, just didn't understand what the acronyms were. I'm still trying to figure out the system. Aquabanianskakid (talk) 20:50, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

April 2011

Thank you for your recent contributions, such as Cameron Earl. Getting started creating new articles on Wikipedia can be tricky, and you might like to try creating a draft version first, which you can then ask for feedback on if necessary, without the risk of speedy deletion. Do make sure you also read help available to you, including Your First Article and the Tutorial. You might also like to try the Article Wizard, which has an option to create a draft version. Thank you. elektrikSHOOS 19:37, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Regarding your recent email

Wikipedia can be a maze of policy sometimes when it comes to new articles, I'll admit. I found it very daunting when I first started editing the encyclopedia, so I can understand why you would too. A good place to start learning about what Wikipedia does and does not allow would actually be through the links found on the welcome template at the top of this page. Policies more specific to biographies can be found at the notability standards on people and special concerns made to biographies of living people. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask. Also, in the future, rather than emailing me, you can just leave a note on my talk page. elektrikSHOOS 19:40, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Regarding Cameron Earl, the note I posted above is a great place to start. Draft articles are mostly outside the risk of speedy deletion because they're in your personal userspace, so it's a great place to work on an unfinished article and then later move it back to the main articlespace once it's matured. elektrikSHOOS 19:42, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice! I've been trying to keep pages with the deletion standards open so that I can reference them. Honestly the most overwhelming aspects of Wikipedia are the tags. Aquabanianskakid (talk) 19:51, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Jacob Bonham

Hello Aquabanianskakid. I am just letting you know that I deleted Jacob Bonham, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which doesn't fit the page in question. Thank you. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 00:51, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Dark major dog

Hi. I've changed your speedy deletion reason on Dark major dog from G1 (nonsense) to G3 (hoax). G1 is really only for "incoherent text or gibberish" - that is, stuff that cannot be readily understood in English - and not for things written in clear English, even if factually incorrect. But I think this one satisfies G3 OK, seeing as there are no Google hits for it -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:43, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

PS: There's a fuller explanation of the CSD criteria at WP:CSD - don't know if you've seen it -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:44, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Either way it's trash, why didn't you delete it? Aquabanianskakid (talk) 13:54, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

John Pack Lambert

I just left my response to him on my talk page along with some suggestions. Could you take a look and see if you would like to add anything. Bgwhite (talk) 23:36, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Looks good to me. I really wasn't trying to hurt his feelings. I was just wanted him to understand the problems with his sources and why I proposed things for deletion. I'm glad you are helping him out a bit, I tried to run some searches to find references for some of the articles and quickly got frustrated. If I get a second wind perhaps I can jump in and find some references. Aquabanianskakid (talk) 00:43, 6 April 2011 (UTC)