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The article Form and document creation has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- essay / original research
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Hi
editJust to let you know that User:RHaworth has replied to your question on his talk page. Not sure if you'd seen it or not. Regards, Brammers (talk/c) 22:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for this note. I saw his response, but am still confused as to how my page is in violation of Wikipedia guidelines. I did the original research myself. It is not a how to guide, it is research within the technical communication field (and I linked it to the technical communication page). Maybe I just need to call it forms and documents? I don't know. I'm looking for the Article Incubator right now to submit for review. I want to be respectful of when and how to use Wikipedia, but I really don't see what the problem is. Rwallac (talk) 01:29, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
- I've had a read through the article, and it's obviously well-researched and thought out. The niggle for me is twofold: firstly because it's an essay, it involves a new synthesis of ideas and therefore might fall foul of the original research policy. Secondly, I'm not entirely sure how it could be turned from an essay into an article (a semantically subtle point, perhaps). I think that this warrants further discussion, so if you like you can take the {{proposed deletion}} tag off the page, since that's only for completely non-controversial deletions that obviously fall foul of policy, and follow the few easy steps at WP:DEPROD to make things ship-shape. This will give you extra time to work out how to improve the article. If someone comes along and recommends it for Articles for Deletion, then don't panic too much: deletion is far from certain, and often a page will be moved to your userspace for improvement rather than being wiped off the site. In the case that this article is listed at AfD, there'll be a message on your talk page and a big banner at the top of the page with a link to the discussion that you can enter. Brammers (talk/c) 07:45, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, thank you. I will follow those links and work on the page. Rwallac (talk) 12:13, 3 May 2011 (UTC)