Cedar96002

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Speedy deletion nomination of Americans for Educational Testing Reform

A tag has been placed on Americans for Educational Testing Reform 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 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 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 that has been nominated for deletion (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 page 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 page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Ironholds (talk) 22:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Deleted text

Hello,

I recently had an article Speedily Deleted. Could you possibly send me the text of the article so that I do not have to re-create it? The article was "Americans for Educational Testing Reform".

And I do not understand why it was deleted - I would really appreciate any advice you have for me!

Thank you, Jess

Cedar96002 (talk) 21:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)cedar96002

I've restored the article in your user space, at User:Cedar96002/Americans for Educational Testing Reform. You can work on it there for now.
The reason it was deleted was that it did not say why "Americans for Educational Testing Reform" might be a notable topic. You've described the organization, but there is no indication as to why this is a notable organization that should have an encyclopedic entry here. A quick search of my own on Google News, Google Scholar, or Google Books didn't turn anything up just now either.
What you need to do before the article can be moved back into article space, where it can be found by our readers, is to "establish notability". This is most easily done by adding a few independent reliable sources, like newspapers, that have discussed the topic in-depth. If there is no such news coverage of a contemporary topic then usually such an article would be deleted even if it were discussed by a broader group here, and not speedily deleted. User Ironholds left a couple of links on your user page along with his message, I would suggest you have at least a look at Your first article for some more information. For more detailed information about the notability guideline of cooperations, you can also have a look at WP:Notability (organizations and companies).
If you can find some good reliable references about the topic, or if there's anything else you can help you with, feel free to get back to me.
Kind regards, Amalthea 22:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

If you aren't going to work on it though then I will have to delete it again in a couple of days.
Regards, Amalthea 19:03, 24 May 2009 (UTC)