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Speedy deletion nomination of Gnomes United International

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Thanks for your note. I don't really doubt that your group exists; what you didn't prove was that it was notable. It is not enough for a group to exist in order for it to be the subject of a Wikipedia article, it has to be notable, and that notability has to be attested to by reliable sources (third-party experts writing in reputable publications like books, magazines and newspapers), and those reliable sources have to be verifiable. Articles that don't contain those three vital concepts are subject to immediate deletion, once they are examined by a new page patroller. I would recommend that you look at WP:Your first article for some background information on these concepts, as well as follow the links in this paragraph; if you still have further questions, leave me a note. Accounting4Taste:talk 15:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

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Talk pages

While I appreciate your enthusiasm for the Reverend William Paley's teleological argument, article talk pages are for discussing specific improvements to the article, not a forum for debate. Other websites provide opportunities to discuss the topic more generally, but that's not the function of Wikipedia. All the best, dave souza, talk 05:20, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:NOTFORUM

Second warning; please stop attempting to use Wikipedia as a chat room/forum. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

January 2010

Please refrain from attacking other contributors, as you did with this edit to User talk:Dave souza. Continued personal attacks may lead to being blocked for disruption. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Thank you. Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 21:44, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Talk:Evolution. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 21:50, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

How am I attacking them!?!? I have never said anything against them...and I was just saying that I was debating on talk pages because someone explained to me that they were not meant for actually talking, just commenting on what could be changed...I was even saying Thank you to Mildy Mad...but I guess courtesy is also vandalism :(

Sigh, I am probably gonna get band for editing my own page <:(

Sincerely: A very unhappy, Project Gnome...

All you need to do is observe the WP:NOTFORUM policy, and stop asking about "debate" tabs. If you can do that, you won't be blocked. Thanks, OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:59, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I was just suggesting a debate tab that's all...(I know it requires tons of coding not to mention server space...I was just suggesting the idea...)

Project Gnome (talk) 22:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't know how I "attacked the reputation of another person." I will admit that I am very opinionated :D

But I do not decide one day that I want the sky to be green, and it magically turns green...Yes, I do not site sources mainly because most of the internet is either unreliable or biased...All my evidence, thus far, has been based on common sense and logic...

Note: I'm not saying that everyone who does not agree with me, is dumb and does not listen to reason...I'm just trying to get people thinking for themselves, rather than believing everything they've been told...I have taken the time to question my beliefs and everything that I have been taught. By doing this, I see the world differently than I used to. My motives are innocent, I just want people to experience this metamorphosis...

Project Gnome (talk) 22:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

once again sorry for all the trouble... Project Gnome (talk) [c. 22:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC)]

Since you're interested in evolution, feel free to debate it at talk origins. There are plenty of websites for debating issues, but Wikipedia isn't one of them as has been pointed out to you. If you don't want to help to construct an encyclopaedia based on published reliable sources, this is the wrong place for you. Good luck with your debates elswhere. . . dave souza, talk 22:32, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

An honest question for you, Gnome: how is it logical to decide that evidence is wrong or biased before you read it? How is it logical to make scientific claims based on "common sense?" Common sense tells us many things; quite a few of them are wrong. Common sense tells us that the Earth is flat and the sun revolves around it. (Yes, I know that you don't believe those things, but that's because someone demonstrated that, contrary to common sense, they're not true.)

I certainly don't want to turn your page into a debate forum, but consider those questions. Think them through. You may find that those of us who accept the evidence for evolution aren't doing so because it's what we've "been told to think"--but rather because we've spent years studying the evidence for and against both positions, and have concluded that Creationism does not explain the facts, and evolution does. --BRPierce (talk) 19:32, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

I will stop making forums...I'm just giving a closing statement FYI, The earliest portions of Scripture date back to 150 BCE to 70 CE. Dead Sea Scrolls and nothing in the Bible has been disproved by historical evidence...and there have been thousands of biblical manuscripts, that still survive today Biblical manuscript. So if I had to choose from recent discoveries(that have been made in the past 200-300 years) or thousands of historical documents(that all agree and have have the same basic story going on throughout a period of thousands of years.) I'd choose the one with more supportive evidence to back it up.

Note: I did take the time to look up the evolution page..."Evolutionary ideas such as common descent and the transmutation of species have existed since at least the 6th century BCE, when they were expounded by the Greek philosopher Anaximander."

and Creationism does explain the facts; God spoke the universe into existence...

Genesis: 1

"1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."

That is all...I will stop making forums...please stop asking me questions that I need to answer...

Sincerely, Project Gnome (talk) 03:36, 31 January 2010 (UTC)