Senatorj777

AfD nomination of Bill still

An editor has nominated Bill still, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill still and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 18:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:No one will actually tell me how...

Hi Senatorj777, I took a look at the article, and the deletion discussion so I can explain to you why the article is being considered for deletion. The main problem with this article is that the topic (Bill Still) might not be notable enough to be included into Wikipedia. The guideline that is used to judge whether a person is notable enough or not can be found at Wikipedia:Notability (people).

If you read through that guideline you will note that the primary criterion is as follows:

A person is notable if he or she has been the subject of secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent,6 and independent of the subject.

Because the article contains no pointers to any sources whatsoever, it's hard to judge whether this person is notable enough, and we can't assume that any of the facts stated in the article are actually true.

If you want to prevent this article from being deleted the first step you must take is find several sources, preferably well-known and reliable sources such as the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc, and then add those sources to the article to show that this person is notable enough to have an own article.

You should also try to find references for all the information in the article so that every fact that is made can be verified, per our Wikipedia:Verifiability policy.

Finally, I suggest you read through our attribution policy at Wikipedia:Attribution to learn more about sources, research and verifiability here on Wikipedia.

I hope this helps, and feel free to ask me anything questions about anything else on my talk page. I have left you a welcome message below to provide a few more pointers on using Wikipedia. Jayden54 17:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

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