User talk:Indyfitz

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Contents 1 Nummies 2 Brutarian 3 Change of redirect 4 By the way 5 AfD nomination of David M. Fitzpatrick 6 Notability of Dominick J. Salemi 7 AfD nomination of Brutarian 8 Speedy deletion of Fisher Engineering

[edit] Nummies

WP:DFTT Please. [1]. Thanks --Justanother 04:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brutarian

A tag has been placed on Brutarian, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 22:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change of redirect

I've changed the redirect on your userpage- using a redirect there makes it difficult for people to use your userpage to communicate with you, because it redirects them to an article about you, which is kind of confusing. I changed it to a statement that still links to the article, but leaves people who click on your username the option of sticking around to leave you a message on your talk page if they want to, so you don't get cut off from communications. Please feel free to let me know if you need any other help. -FisherQueen (Talk) 11:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] By the way

I think that the two articles you are working on probably are about notable subjects, but in my searching, I haven't yet found the reliable sources that we'll need to satisfy the Wikipedia requirements. I'm hoping that, being more familiar with this magazine than I am, you'll be familiar with some significant writing about the magazine and the person that you can cite, so that we can bring these articles up to Wikipedia's requirements. Let me know if you need any help with that; I'd be glad to be of assistance. -FisherQueen (Talk) 11:32, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The thing is, there isn't much online to cite--and simply finding things online doesn't always make it proof of notability. Through my former association with Brutarian, I know all of this firsthand. I suppose I could put up a page on my Web site about Brutarian, and then cite that, but that gets to be a little silly! I could also cite the former Brutarian Web site, available in the archives at the Wayback Machine, but again, much of this is firsthand knowledge. How do you cite firsthand knowledge? And why does it appearing on a Web site make it notable, but firsthand knowledge is not? Neither can be confirmed, I suppose. It's a quandary, one that Wikipedia battles every day to the point of silliness. It's like my friend says about getting a legal ID: You need ID to get ID. You need a SS card to get a driver's license, or a birth certificate to get a SS card, or a license to get a birth certificate, and so on. But sooner or later, SOMEONE just HAS to take your word for it. --Indy 11:57, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't have to be online; we can also cite newspapers, books, etcetera, using the same forms you would for offline research. And just appearing on a web site doesn't cut it; it needs to be written about in detail by a source we can trust to be accurate. But if there aren't any sources at all, that's when the subject doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability criteria- Wikipedia only publishes information that is available in secondary sources, but it isn't meant to be the first place that information is published. That's because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that's what encyclopedias do. If you're writing about firsthand knowledge, not information that has been published in reliable sources, then you should seek to publish it somewhere else first- Wikipedia has a core principle which says that we don't publish original research. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Heheheh... funny thing was, I was just randomly reading an entry on a video game called Peggle. The entry rambled on with every single detail of the game. Hardly encyclopedic--but of course meets all the requirements, since someone published it somewhere else. Yet it seems a bit, I don't know, frivolous and overrun for something like a video game. So how does one decide that an online source is something that can be trusted to be accurate? Having contributed to Brutarian once upon a time, and having a deep first-hand knowledge of it and its editor/publisher, one would assume that I am in fact qualified to, say, put up a Web page somewhere just to justify it then appearing on Wikipedia--just as the Peggle people are considered a trustworthy source for posting everything about their game on their Web site. It gets confusing and perhaps a bit frustrating. I understand the point and the principles, but jeez. --Indy 13:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

The guidelines on which sources are considered reliable are here. If you found another article that doesn't meet those guidelines and want to help improve it, that's awesome- I haven't gotten around to every one of the million and a half articles on Wikipedia yet myself, and even with lots of volunteers helping, there are still articles that frankly need either a lot of work, or deleting. Once you're familiar with the guidelines, you can help improve it or nominate it for deletion, whichever it needs. All those guidelines can be a little labyrinthine, but they're what keeps Wikipedia a reliable encyclopedia, and keeps it from turning into MySpace. -FisherQueen (Talk) 15:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of David M. Fitzpatrick

I have nominated David M. Fitzpatrick, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David M. Fitzpatrick. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. fschoenm (talk) 15:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Dominick J. Salemi

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[edit] AfD nomination of Brutarian

An editor has nominated Brutarian, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Fisher Engineering

A tag has been placed on Fisher Engineering 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 company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 15:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)