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Speedy deletion of Janet Henry

A tag has been placed on Janet Henry 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 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. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the article or have a copy emailed to you. - Unforgiven24 ^Talk|_Contribs 02:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Article about your mother

I'm sorry if you felt it was unfair, but would you expect to find an article about her in an encyclopedia in a library? --Dweller (talk) 15:15, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Furthermore, I saw your post at the help desk. What page would you like deleted? --Dweller (talk) 15:17, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

 Note: Moved from Talk:Main Page -- lucasbfr ^talk 19:49, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Am I the only one who thinks that a speedy deletion is totally unfair? I just typed out a huge article about my biological mom because I couldn't find any information on her, and without warning, or even a chance to fix it, Wikipedia deleted it. So, now none of my family can add information to that page so I can know everything about her. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FizzDoc300 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

See our guidelines on notability. If you would like to have the deleted text for posting elsewhere (try a blog, maybe?), an administrator would probably provide it, but it is not appropriate for Wikipedia. --NE2 03:23, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

See also instructions at the top of this page. Not everything is appropriate to discuss here. We are supposed to only talk about the Main Page on Talk: Main Page. --74.14.23.25 (talk) 13:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? An administrator can recover a copy of the page you typed, in case you did not save it, and then you can put it on another wiki which accepts biographies about non-famous people. See: Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. I'm sorry about your mother, and I'm doubly sorry about the general insensitivity of Wikipedia as you are experiencing it. In my opinion, Wikipedia presents itself to the brand-new user as far more welcoming than it really is. When you first see Wikipedia, it looks like you can just type about anything you want, and the software doesn't stop you. Only later, when other humans scrutinize what you did, then they come down on you with all the rules you didn't know anything about. I would like to see Wikipedia require new users to demonstrate some knowledge of the rules before allowing them to spend hours on end typing away. For example, nobody should be allowed to create a new page until they can answer a few simple questions about Wikipedia's deletion process (for example, the fact that Wikipedia eats thousands of new articles by new users for lunch, and the word "Save" doesn't mean what it usually does). But my point of view seems to be in the minority here. --Teratornis (talk) 04:39, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Mostly though, Teratornis, people should inherently know that nobody really cares about their mum. Hell I don't even care about myself and I could eat my mum for lunch! 194.75.236.70 (talk) 12:45, 16 January 2009 (UTC)