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AfD nomination of Frank Kratovil

An article that you have been involved in editing, Frank Kratovil, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Kratovil. Thank you. SWik78 (talk) 17:43, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Frank Kratovil

Hello, and thanks for the message.

The main thing I want to stress right now is that I merely nominated the article for deletion in order to generate a debate as to whether or not this person is notable. For a lot of newcomers to Wikipedia, the notion of notability is one they seem to struggle with because it may be hard for a million Wikipedia editors to agree on what constitutes notability. One of the main policies and guidelines of Wikipedia is the the policy of notability and, in the case of politicians, there is notability criteria for politicians. If you want to read through the second one of those links, try to figure out for yourself whether or not the subject of the article is described in one of the points that would be considered to make the subject notable. If you think he does fit the criteria, please do go to the debate for deletion of the article and explain your reasoning so that the article may be kept. If you find that he doesn't fit any of the criteria, go to the first link I provided and see if you can say that he is considered notable for something else outside of politics.
The subject of any article must be considered notable for something in order to have an article about that subject. In my nomination, I failed to see notability in this subject but I could very well be wrong so feel free to prove me so.
As far as hyperlinks, or wiki-links, that is a very good question you ask. If you click here, you will see all the articles on Wikipedia that already list his name and have a wiki-link to his article. If you suspect there are other articles with his name listed but no link to his article do this:

• in the Wikipedia search box on the left side of the screen, type in Frank Kratovil
• make sure you hit the Search button instead of Go or Enter key
• any article that has the name Frank Kratovil will be listed with the name displayed in red
• go to that article, find his name and see if there is a wiki-link
• if there is, go back to the search results page and go to the next article. If there isn't, click the edit this page button at the top of the article, find the name in the article and then add double square brackets before ( [[ ) and after ]] the name. Click Save page and go back to the search results page so you can do the same with the next article.

I hope this helps but don't hesitate to ask me further questions if you should have any. By the way, even though I think the subject of your article may not be notable enough for Wikipedia, I must say that your first article is fairly decently written. Not bad for a beginner.

Peace! SWik78 (talk) 13:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Frank Kratovil redirects

The Frank Kratovil and Frank kratovil pages that you un-redirected have been redirected back to United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland, 2008 in accordance with editor consensus to merge at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Kratovil. The re-created articles did not address the issues decided at that AfD. • Gene93k (talk) 17:28, 19 August 2008 (UTC)