User talk:Mikeblas/Archives/2009/March

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road course ringer

When you decide to list an article for deletion, and it clearly falls within a WikiProject (WP:NASCAR or at least WP:MOTOR in this case), I highly recommend that you notify that WikiProject. I would have been able to come up with plenty of reliable sources if I would have found the deletion. Had that article been deleted, I would have to go through the deletion review and I would have recreated it with a well-sourced article. It's bureaucracy for no reason. I wasn't given a chance... I'll do something about it now, which was really your goal, right? Royalbroil 12:05, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion. I probably won't act on it, since it's neither practical nor required. Whatever project(s) that have "claimed" an article area already well-aware of the article, including its quality assessment. This article has been in the NACSAR project since November of 2005 (almost three and a half years), and rated "stub" class within the that project since July of 2006 (more than two and a half years). The project is well-aware of the article and its quality. If it's not, it's not a problem that someone filing an AfD should really be expected to solve.

The article had more than enough chance over the last three years, and was given more than a fair chance after it was re-listed at AfD.

The article rescue squadron pounces on many AfD articles, so maybe you should subscribe to their list page.

In the end, even if the article had been deleted, it's easily reversible through the review process given bona-fide reasons to keep it. -- Mikeblas (talk) 15:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

On behalf of the Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign, we just want to spread Wikipedia:WikiLove by wishing you a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 16:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)