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Mushroom (Talk) 10:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
An article you created maybe deleted soon: Tools which can help you
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The article you created, Troy Sparks maybe deleted from Wikipedia.
There is an ongoing debate about whether your article should be deleted here:
The faster your respond, the better chance the article you created can be saved. There are several tools and other editors who can help you keep the page from being deleted forever:
- List the page up for deletion on Article Rescue Squadron. You can get help listing your page on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page.
- You can request a mentor to help explain to you all of the complex rules that editors use to get a page deleted: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. But don't wait for a mentor to respond to you before responding on the article for deletion page.
- When trying to delete a page, veteran editors love to use a lot of rule acronyms. Don't let these acronyms intimidate you.
Here is a list of your own acronyms you can use yourself: WP:Deletion debate acronyms which may support the page you created being kept. Acronyms in deletion debates are sometimes incorrectly used, or ignore rules or exceptions. - You can vote to merge the article into a larger or better established article on the same topic.
Finding sources which mention the topic of your article are the very best way to keep an article.
- Find sources for Troy Sparks: google books, google news recent, google news old, google scholar, NYT recent, NYT old, a9, msbooks, msacademic ...You can then cite these results in the Article for deletion discussion.
If your page is deleted, you still have many options available. Good luck! travb (talk) 22:49, 10 January 2009 (UTC)