User talk:Jpdenton23

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Speedy deletion nomination of Grattan Raceway Park[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Grattan Raceway Park, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Moved to userspace[edit]

Hi! I moved an article you created to your userspace. You can find it at User:Jpdenton23/Grattan Raceway Park. The article had several issues with it. Firstly, it came across as promotional in tone. I honestly don't think that this was your intent, but please avoid phrases such as "it's considered one of the finest facilities in the United States" and "if you can master Grattan Raceway you can drive anywhere". This came across as an advertisement for the raceway. Things must be written neutrally and things like that are considered to be opinions, which should never be included in the article. I also noticed that the article only has WP:PRIMARY sources, by which I mean that the only sources seem to be written by people working with the raceway itself. You need reliable sources that are independent of the source, which means that they need to be written by reliable sources that have nothing to do with the raceway. I'd recommend getting someone from Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR to help you out. This doesn't seem to be strictly NASCAR related, but they'd absolutely be able to steer you in the right direction for sources. Plus well... if you decide you want to join up with that WP and help out, then that's fine too! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:56, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]