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Speedy deletion nomination of The Art of Being a Thug

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on The Art of Being a Thug requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Lor^Talk 22:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from The Art of Being a Thug, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Lor^Talk 23:35, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page The Art of Being a Thug has been reverted.
Your edit here to The Art of Being a Thug was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/embed/vbhAllAdmzE) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 00:10, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of The Life of a Thug for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Life of a Thug is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Life of a Thug until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. --Non-Dropframe _talk 15:28, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

• There are several reasons why the page The Life of a Thug was unsuitable as a Wikipedia article, including the following:

1. It read more like a personal essay, telling us about your own opinions and experiences, than like an objective statement of facts. Such remarks as "Digging a little deeper into what a Thug is and I saw a really good one" are unsuitable for an article: the article should be about its subject, not about your personal experience related to that subject. Likewise, no sentence in a Wikipedia article should begin "What I think Tupac is saying...", as we don't want the personal analysis of just anyone who happens to choose to come along and create a Wikipedia account.
2. Content of Wikipedia articles needs to come from reliable sources, and what someone chose to post to UrbanDictionary is not a reliable source; nor is what someone chose to make a video of and post to YouTube.
3. You say "Many people in the class thought the same thing". Firstly, you give no context: you don't tell us what "class" you are talking about. Secondly, if you mean your class at school, then what the pupils in some class in some school happened to think is not significant enough to be reported in an encyclopaedia article.
4. The purpose of the article was to persuade us to accept a particular opinion about what you call "thugs". Editing to promote an opinion or point of view is not permitted on Wikipedia, and for that reason I have deleted it.

I see that an earlier version of the article has already been deleted. The article was nominated as the subject of a deletion discussion at WP:Articles for deletion. Since the article qualified for immediate deletion under Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as a promotional article, I have closed that discussion. I strongly urge you not to spend more time on editing about this topic, because it will be a waste of your time, as whatever you post is likely to be deleted. There are many other, more useful, subjects on which you can contribute to the encyclopaedia. My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make (which you will, because we all do) will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:AFAMproject

A tag has been placed on User:AFAMproject requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Wgolf (talk) 19:58, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to introduce inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. If you need guidance on how to create appropriate pages, try using the Article Wizard. .