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Speedy deletion nomination of Ilovethebeach.com

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A tag has been placed on Ilovethebeach.com 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 web content, 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.

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Re your message: You are welcome to recreate the article if you can provide the necessary citations to reliable sources covering the website. You need to show that the site meets the notability guideline for websites or the general notability guidelines. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:24, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: You left me a message while logged out, but I responded here. To properly format the article, I suggest that you review Wikipedia's guide to writing your first article. You can also use an existing Wikipedia article about a similar website as a template to build a new article (see Category:Erotica and pornography websites for a listing of similar sites). As for the inclusion of potentially explicit images, while Wikipedia is not censored, the use of explicit images should be used if and only if their omission would cause the article to be less informative, relevant, or accurate, and no equally suitable alternatives are available (see Wikipedia:Offensive material and Wikipedia:Pornography for additional details). -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: I have restored the article into your user space at User:Paulmcanders/Ilovethebeach.com so that you can work on the article. You can move the page into main space once you have finished the article.

As for your question about the use files in articles, Wikipedia has an extensive help document about how to upload and use files at Help:Contents/Images and media. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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Ilovethebeach.com

Re your message: As the article stands now, it would not meet the notability requirements for websites as it does not include any references to third-party sources. All of the references you have included are from the site itself or trivial (robtex.com). You need to locate news articles about the site for it to be notable. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:04, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Godo Dodo I have made serveral changes to my page please tell me if it is ready to move it to the main page.Paulmcanders (talk) 18:23, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

No, I don't think it is ready yet. Your addition of the statistics about visitor traffic does not establish the site's notability. In fact, you should remove everything but the first paragraph in the article as the remaining paragraphs are trivia and not encyclopedic material. What you need to find to establish the site's notability are articles by major news organizations about the site. For example, have any newspapers, magazines, or other websites (but not traffic statistics or domain information sites) written about it? Awhile back, you said that the site gained some notoriety because of a connection with Victoria Beckham. Having articles about that incident may establish the site's notability. If you look at the article for Mr. Skin, you will see what I mean by newspaper articles as it has references to the articles from the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, and The New York Times. If you can find similar articles for this website, that that is what establishes notability, not visitor and domain information.

On a side note, if you need more feedback or have another question, please leave me another note on my talk page so that I will notice. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:41, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: Yes, there does need to be some coverage of the site from news organizations in order for the article to remain. There is nothing I can do as an administrator to allow the article to remain if it does not meet the notability guidelines. The sitetrail.com link is not a reference as that is another domain traffic site like Alexa and does not establish a site's notability.

What you can do is ask for feedback from other interested editors at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. Others might be able to assist you with finding enough references to meet the notability guidelines.

Wikipedia does have a few articles about the topic of secret photography and photography and the law that touch on the issue of privacy. There is also an article about what sounds like a similar site: Voyeurweb. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:27, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: The porninspector.com review leans towards notability, but not the other two. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:56, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: You don't need my permission to move it back into main space. However, I will tell you that in my opinion, if you do move it back into main space as the article stands now, it will likely be deleted again as you have not satisfied the notability guidelines.

You have to go to my talk page in order to leave me a reply. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:19, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: The porninspector.com reference is borderline towards notability in my opinion. You really need multiple references in order to meet the notability guidelines. You should remove all of the statistics and server/domain information (essentially everything but the first paragraph) as they do not add anything to the notability of the article and is not encyclopedic. I can't help you with Wikia questions as I only deal with Wikipedia. On a side note, you are editing while not logged in. While you can do that, I would recommend that you sign in to your account. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: I think one of the differences is that the Voyeurweb reference is a solid one from Wired, while the ilovethebeach.com reference that you found is borderline in my opinion.

There are over 1,500 administrators on Wikipedia. Any of one them can delete it through the speedy deletion process like the article was originally deleted or it can be deleted through community discussion via the proposed deletion or articles for deletion process. Usually, what happens is that an editor will tag the article for speedy deletion and an available admin will act on it. That is what happened in the first deletion. It was pure random chance that I was the deleting admin. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:50, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: I don't think any of these reviews establish the site's notability either. The problem I think you have is this site seems to be just one of thousands of pornographic sites with no particular distinction beyond site reviews. You could pack the article full of reviews, but that doesn't distinguish why this particular website is different than all of the other sites that are reviewed by these review sites. With the Voyeurweb article and all of the other pornographic sites, the references were not just site reviews, but articles by reliable news organizations discussing some particular cultural aspect of the sites. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: Being one of the oldest may or may not make the site notable, but the problem is finding a reliable source to back up such a claim. The review is not a reliable source for such a claim. As for XVideos, the statistics are used to claim notability as the most viewed pornographic website. Does that mean it is notable? Maybe, maybe not. But the fact that other articles exist does not exempt other articles from the notability requirements. As for your last question, I will not delete the article through the speedy deletion process nor will I defend or support the article from deletion by participating in any community deletion discussion should it come to that. I may monitor the AfD if it comes to that, but I will not express an opinion on either to keep or delete the article. With all of the assistance that I have provided you regarding the article, I think it would be best if I remain as a neutral source for you in the future. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: The process of speedy deletion is not quite what you think it is. For speedy deletion, an editor will tag the article, it will get listed in a special category, and any admin can review the article and take appropriate action. It is pure random chance on whichever admin decides to look at the category and act upon any particular article. Articles for speedy deletion are not sent to a particular admin. Some admins will also review the list of newly created articles and delete the without another editor tagging them for speedy deletion first. Therefore, to answer your question, any admin may delete the article through the speedy deletion process. There does tend to be a particular group of active admins who have chosen to work on deletion of articles, but there is no definitive list of those admins.

For the community deletion process, any editor may start a deletion discussion. The article is discussed for a fixed amount of time and then an admin determines consensus towards or against deletion of the article. As with the speedy deletion process, there does tend to be a particular group of active admins that close AfDs, but the closure of them is not determined by the admin's opinion alone, but of the consensus of all participants in the discussion. The admin can not override the consensus of the discussion.

The short answer to your question is: If you are looking for a list of people who you can contact before the article is published to prevent its deletion, there is nobody you can contact. It can be any admin or any editor that deletes the article through speedy deletion or starts an AfD on an article, respectively. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:44, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Re your message: When I last looked the article back in November, I told you then that I did not think the article was ready for release. You published it in late December and it went through quite a history as your talk page notices indicate. First, it was nominated for speedy deletion by Daemonic Kangaroo, but the deletion was declined by StephenBuxton. The article was then noticed by Billinghurst who initiated the community deletion process that I told you about above. The discussion was held at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ilovethebeach.com. Finally, the AfD was closed as a speedy deletion by TParis. You will need to contact TParis about the closure of the AfD and undeleting the article as I can not do it for you.

The copy within your user space is still available at User:Paulmcanders/Ilovethebeach.com. It was only blanked by Billinghurst, not deleted. You will need to ask them why they did that. The article history on your user space copy has the complete record of your edits to the article and you may recover the work that way. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:09, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Re your messages: In my opinion, none of these sites help your claim to notability, because none of them are written about ilovethebeach.com itself. Most of them don't even mention the site name at all. Instead, they are just pointing to content distributed by ilovethebeach.com. Notable sites linking to other sites does not make the other site notable as notability is not inherited.

As for your connection to potential privacy laws, unless you can show that Victoria Beckham video led to laws either being passed or proposed, then there is no notability attained that way either. Wikipedia is not a soapbox to get potential privacy issues regarding sites like these to the foreground.

As for the reviews links provided by the site itself, we had gone over many of these before. I don't think any of these particularly helps notability either. The rankings mean nothing since all them are member rankings or rankings within the reviewing site. One of the links doesn't even work anymore. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:46, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Re your message: Unless you can find sources that are reliable there probably is not much you can do to get the article re-published. Unfortunately, the site does not appear to be notable at this time with the references available. I think it is admirable that you are putting in so much work to get the article up, but sometimes a website just is not notable enough for inclusion. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Re your message: My recommendation to you is to abandon your work on ilovethebeach.com and instead work on something else that interests you. You can leave the article in your user space and if some new reliable sources appear, you can resume the work. There over three million articles on Wikipedia, so my guess is that you can find an article that interests you. Or you can join one of the collaborative WikiProject groups on a topic that interests you. Look around and see what interests you, start with smaller edits instead of trying to write full articles, and then see how things go. I suspect that you will find this path much less stressful than trying to start an article from scratch. Creating a new article is not easy and you are not judged by how many you create. I've been here for over five years and have created very few articles. If you prefer to stay away from writing articles, there are many maintenance tasks you can do that are as just as important. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:38, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for sending me this message. I seriously need help. How can I add pictures to wikipedia with getting into copyright trouble? Almost every picture I upload is deleted and I can't do anything to stop it. May you please teach me the correct procedure on how to upload pictures onto wikipedia without them being deleted afterwards?

Paulmcanders (talk) 06:37, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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Re your message: It is not possible for you to delete your account. You can either just abandon your account or invoke your right to vanish. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Dear Godo

Thanks for the help so far. I am having trouble with some of the pictures I uploaded may you please teach me how I my be able to upload pictures and not have them deledted for copyright? Also I still can't find my page from ilovethebeach.com I spoke to the guy you asked me too see but there is still no answer. May you please help me un blank it?

Paulmcanders (talk) 21:57, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Re your message: First off, please be more careful when leaving me additional messages. You removed other editors comments. If you want to reply to me, just find the appropriate section on my talk page and click the Edit link on the right.

The many images that you uploaded and were deleted or nearly deleted was because you improperly license tagged them. You can not upload images that other people have taken or images of television show DVD covers, title screens, promotional images, or book covers and claim that you own the copyright. The original producer of those shows or books owns the copyright. I recommend that you read Wikipedia:Uploading images for additional details. Also, the initial upload screen gives you hints on what you should and should not do in the "Where is the media from?" section. Just click the appropriate link for whatever you are uploading.

The reason you can not find the copy of your article in your user space anymore is because you moved the user space copy into the main space per your move log. You should have not moved the user space copy into the main article space in an attempt to get the article published again. As I told you, the article was deleted through an AfD discussion and your attempt at republishing it without addressing the issues resulted in your moved article being subject to speedy deletion per policy. You can ask either TParis or RHaworth to restore and move the article back to your user space for you, but then you must not re-publish the article until the notability issues have been addressed. If you do re-publish with addressing the issues, it will be deleted again and I wouldn't be surprised if the article name is locked to prevent you from re-publishing it yet again. I can not restore the article for you, but I have left the two admins in question a note about it. Only they can restore it or I can if they consent to me restoring it for you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:04, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Re your message: The image you uploaded of Ruth Madoff is unusable on Wikipedia because you copied it from the New York magazine website and you do not have any rights to assign it to the public domain. You did not take the photo, so you do not own the rights. I think the short answer for you since you do not know image copyrights very well is to avoid uploading any photos unless you took them yourself (and even then there are certain restrictions depending upon the subject of your photo).

While TParis has consented to undeletion and userfication of the article, I have not heard anything back from RHaworth. It is only with RHaworth's additional consent that I will restore your article. My warning to you about not re-publishing it until you have corrected the notability issue still stands. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:08, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Never mind. I see that StephenBuxton has restored the article for you in your user space. However, to repeat myself, you must work on the notability of the article before any attempt at republishing it. If you do not do so, it will likely be deleted again. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 08:13, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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“ I would to speak to you about the my page you have recently deleted Ilovethebeach.com. I would to speak with you to make the necessary changes to have it reenstated. One problem that I am having is that it was blanked and now i can't see it my you please undo this for me? ” — Paulmcanders via email

Hi Paulmcanders. Thanks for your email, and though I am not the person who should or has the ability to mentor you in articles. You mentioned that you believed that you were blocked, I do not see that this is the case.

I have included a fuller list of article that assist in writing articles for Wikipedia. The issue around the website that you mention is that it simply may not be notable (Wikipedia:Notability). Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a listing service, and your creation of the articles crosswiki looked more like a conflict of interest rather than an attempt to improve the encyclopaedia. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

User:Paulmcanders/Ilovethebeach.com

Hi! As per your request, I have userfied the article. This may be found at User:Paulmcanders/Ilovethebeach.com. The entire page history has been restored too, so you should be able to find a version that you can start work from.

Remember: whilst it is unlikely to be deleted from your user page for notability issues, userfied articles can still be deleted for copywrite issues, negative unsourced BLP issues, and for being blatant adverts. I'll pop by later when I get a chance and check how you're getting on.

One thing I haven't asked so far (rather remiss of me, please forgive me) is whether or not you have any direct association with the website. It's one thing for a fan (for example) to write about a favourite website, it's another thing entirely for the website owner to write about it. It isn't against the rules to do so, but people are less likely to look favourably on the article if they discover later on that you own the site and hadn't told anyone.

If you are associated with the website, I recommend you read the guidelines on Conflict of Interest. Also, for transparancy, declare your connection at the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard.

Any questions? Drop me a note on my talk page. Happy Editing! Stephen! ^Coming... 08:07, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

One other thing - not sure if you've seen the latest note on my talk page. I'm afraid the one thing I am unable to help with is images - copyright law is a minefield, and my understanding of how it relates to images is extremely shakey. Your best bet would be to ask at the help desk, or talk to User:Gogo Dodo as someone who does understand such matters. Stephen! ^Coming... 10:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback

It has been transferred into your user space in the meantime, see above (User:Paulmcanders/Ilovethebeach.com).

Lectonar (talk) 09:55, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

 

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Re [[1]]: Thanks - Now you can do the others :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 18:41, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

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— Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 11:08, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I made an edit to your draft here, notice the "invisible comments" (text that shows up in the editing window but not when viewing the article).

Most important: you need a reliable source that says that the website is "influential" at all and that it is "controversial". If no reliable source says that, then the article can't say that either. And if it's not either influential or controversial or anything then it means that it's not notable enough according to Wikipedia's standards.

You have a bunch of links there but most if not all don't look like reliable sources. Of course, I'm only judging by the URLs since I don't want to click through to any of them. So I'm asking you: do any of the links qualify as reliable sources? — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 11:59, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Changes

Re your message: No, Terms of Use changes would not affect the article from being published as the Terms of Use have nothing to do with the notability guidelines on Wikipedia. The article would still have the same notability issues. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:28, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

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