User talk:68.185.173.116

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Please refrain from adding comments to userpages. If you wish to leave a comment for a user, please do so on their talk/discussion page. Thank you. ∞Who?¿? 04:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Yes, my reply is on my talk page. --Etacar11 05:09, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Mr. Curnow, I'm sorry for deleting your article. I didn't know that it was you that created the article. You may recreate it if you want. I'm not entirely sure how notable a person has to be to have their own article. You might want to try talking to an administrator on that one. --Hottentot

[edit] John D. Curnow article

Hi John!

It would have been perfectly acceptable for you to add a comment on the deletion debate, but I don't think that it would have stood a good chance of being kept anyway. The perhaps most important criterion for inclusion of articles is that the content is verifiable, and another, more subjective criterion is that the content is notable. In most cases, few or no hits on a google search will mean that the subject is at least difficult to verify and/or of insufficient importance for inclusion because in all but a few cases, Wikipedia won't be the first website which profiles a notable figure, rather it would be in some sort of online newspaper or magazine or similar. In general, Wikipedia also discourages the creation of auto-biographical articles.

I am sorry about the labeling of your article as a hoax, which is something I'll admit that I thought too, it is a consequence of finding nothing on google.

Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)