Rileyniemack

Help me!

Why was my information on Jill Sebastian with a credible reference deleted after submitting a reason to not have a speedy deletion?

Please help me with understanding how I can build a page without it being quickly deleted before it is finished.

Thank you,

Riley Niemack

• I don't see any deleted contributions from this account to Jill Sebastian. Two versions of that article have been deleted: one said only "Jill Sebastian is an Artist and Professor living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin", which does not give any explanation of why she is important or significant enough to have an article in an encyclopedia; the other was a gushing "sweet baby angel from up above. Blessed by thy Jill for we love her so... " possibly suitable for somewhere like Facebook, but not for a serious encyclopedia. Neither had any references at all.

The way to make an article without having it prematurely deleted is:

• Read WP:Your first article and WP:Biographies of living persons.
• Understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social-networking site, and not a place for your opinions, however wonderful you think she is. The WP:Verifiability policy requires that anything you add must be attributed to a reliable, published source.
• Check out WP:Notability (people), particularly WP:CREATIVE. Wikipedia is quite choosy about subjects for articles. It will do your teacher no favours if you make an article which is deleted again.
• Consider seriously whether somewhere like Facebook would not be a better place for your tribute.

If you want to go ahead, first collect references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" te establish WP:Notability; then use WP:Articles for creation to make a draft article, which you can work on until it is ready, with less risk of premature deletion.

JohnCD (talk) 20:22, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Other accounts creating Jill Sebastian

User:Bendembroski created Jill Sebastian on 20 April, and has not edited since.

User:Cacti crissy created Jill Sebastian on 26 April, and has not edited since.

You now come and sign as "Riley Niemack" and ask why the article was deleted. Could you please enlighten us, what's going on? Sam Sailor ^Talk! 23:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

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