Talk:Dick Mastel

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I do not believe that is entry should be deleted on the basis that it is still a work in progress and will improve in a matter of a few days. I reject the idea that it should be deleted solely on the idea that this person has no notability other than being nominated by a major party. It would be helpful to know what is the requirements of being notable are.

Hi Jon - as for reading, here is the basic notability guideline, here is some expansion of that as it applies to people, and here is an attempt to find some common themes in which articles survive deletion debates and which ones don't (this last one isn't policy at all; just a description of what tends to happen in deletion debates). I'll give you a couple of days to read those over, and then we can talk more about whether or not this should be nominated for deletion.

Also, I gather from your username that you're related to the article's subject. If that's the case, you should probably also give WP:COI a read. It doesn't prohibit you from editing this article by any means, but it does suggest the exercise of caution.

Sorry to inundate a new user with policy, but you'll probably have to read it at some point anyway, and it's probably better to do so sooner rather than later. Cheers, Sarcasticidealist (talk) 00:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

One more thing: all the policies and guidelines in the world don't guarantee a particular result at Articles for Deletion, which can be an unpredictable place. For example, Christina Gray, which in my opinion should have been a slum-dunk delete, survived - here's the deletion discussion on that one. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 00:20, 15 February 2008 (UTC)