Quadsey2010

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Speedy deletion nomination of Schlinks

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Speedy deletion nomination of Northern conquest

A tag has been placed on Northern conquest requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guidelines for people and for organizations. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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You wrote that your article was "was made for the promotion of the newly formed woodsball team". Wikipedia is not for promotion of new things (or indeed for promotion of anything), and it only reports on things that are already established. Article subjects must have Notability, which is not a matter of opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and press releases. More advice in WP:Notability (organizations and companies), and good general advice in WP:Your first article. JohnCD (talk) 11:19, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

ok, so if i can provide mention of our team from sources not linked to the team (independent websites etc.) is that ok? Does our sponsor (who runs an independent paintball supply store) mentioning us count? I'm new to all this and whilst i have read through the guidelines, its all a bit confusing.

When i said the page was to promote the team i didn't mean it as if we were using wikipedia as an add service but merely as everyone else uses it, as a means to get information about a subject to the masses.Quadsey2010 (talk) 11:34, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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Out of 3 million articles, we know that there are many whose claim is doubtful at best, but the argument "X has an article so Y should have" is not accepted - see What about article X? The ones you cite are professional teams, so it is likely that independent references could be found, but I don't know that those articles would survive a challenge on notability grounds.

As regards your article, agreed it's not advertising-type promotion, but "I want to tell the masses about my club" is still promotion. Wikipedia would much prefer people not to write about anything with which they have a connection, because of problems of WP:Conflict of interest. Anonymity of accounts makes that impossible to enforce, but you should still read WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

The notability question is, have people independent of the subject thought it interesting and important enough to write about? As your club is newly-formed, it may be some time before it can achieve that. Your sponsor's web site would not count as independent. Consider whether you could write an article following the advice of an experienced editor in User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you:

When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit. If you don't have such sources, don't write.

If you can write an article on that basis, you can certainly also cite your own website, but on its own it's not enough. Read the guide to writing WP:Your first article for more advice, and also the WP:FAQ/Organizations - mainly written for companies, but the advice is still good.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:01, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

• Thats fine, thank you for clarifying. Quadsey2010 (talk) 17:24, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Northern conquest

Hi Quadsey. Per your talk page request, I've moved the deleted article to User:Quadsey2010/Northern conquest - please don't move it to mainspace again until they become seriously more notable or reliably sourced, etc. When you're done with it, just let me know and I can delete it. BTW, there are other wikis, like encyc.org that will happily accept your content so maybe you could move it there? - Alison ^❤ 04:23, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

• • Thank you, can i still edit the article there until its ready to go back to the main space?Quadsey2010 (talk) 08:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
    • Sure, but bear in mind that it may never be notable enough to go back to mainspace. From what I can see, it's not likely too. I've restored it here largely so you can retrieve your work and use it elsewhere - Alison ^❤ 08:49, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
    • oh ye of little faith! lol, thanks for your honesty but i'll keep working on it.Quadsey2010 (talk) 08:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

northern conquest deletion notice

I'm contesting the speedy deletion of the Northern Conquest stub on the grounds that i put up a notice to make the page and had no objections made to it.[Stub proposal]Quadsey2010 (talk) 10:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Irish Woodsball League

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