Cmalbright

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Speedy deletion of Shawn Stern

A tag has been placed on Shawn Stern 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 person or group of people, 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 biographies.

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. Scientus (talk) 08:06, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm very sorry, but it's customary to delete articles like this one, and I have done so. I'll be happy to re-create the article in your userspace if you'd like to continue to work on it; see WP:Your first article for a summary of what we're looking for. A lot of people assume, reasonably enough, that with 2.8 million pages, Wikipedia must have room for a lot of biographies, but our notability requirements are actually very hard to meet; see WP:BIO. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 13:59, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

What we're going to need pretty soon are sources ... newspaper, book, magazine or journal articles would be good, or their online equivalents ... that support the idea that Shawn Stern is notable. If sources can't be found at this time, you may want to make a personal copy of your text before the page is deleted from your userspace. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 04:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)