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Proposed deletion of Gulf Coast Archive and Museum

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Gulf Coast Archive and Museum, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Gulf Coast Archive and Museum

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. DanielRigal (talk) 14:00, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

December 2008 -- Re: Gulf Coast Archive and Museum

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Gulf Coast Archive and Museum. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.)
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Persons/companies editing their own articles is generally frowned upon at Wikipedia... however if you would like to contribute in any other areas of LGBT history/culture, please check out the LGBT WikiProject at WP:LGBT. Happy editing. :-) -- Outsider80 (talk) 23:46, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

reply - 4 jan 2009

hi, sorry for the confusion, all of it can be overwhelming at first.

Basically — someone (person "A") proposed your article for deletion (also called a "prod"), which would mean the article would be automatically deleted within x days if no one objected (by removing the "prod" tag that person "A" put on the page). Another user (person "B") removed the prod tag, taking the article off of the chopping block for now. however, it could still be nominated for the more formal "Articles for deletion" process in the future, if someone felt it wasn't notable enough to merit an article. ("Articles for deletion" requires consensus of multiple editors to delete an article though, so it is harder to delete an article that way). to summarize all of the wikipedia mumbo jumbo, your article is safe for now ...........but you should not edit it anymore from now on, due to WP:COI (Conflict of Interest) issues that could be raised. (This is not to single you out, but it is standard practice — if an article is obviously being edited by the person or organization it is about, it raises red flags about objectivity)

If you wish to contribute in other areas of LGBT articles however, you are more than welcome to join in at the LGBT studies WikiProject, which is a bunch of Wikipedia users who work on various LGBT related articles all over Wikipedia. hope this clears up the confusion, all of the pre-recorded text that can get pasted to your user talk page in 2 seconds by someone can get confusing i guess. if you have any other questions, you can leave me a message here or on my talk page, or you can check out the LGBT WikiProject's discussion page. Happy editing :-) Outsider80 (talk) 13:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC)