What to do
- First and most important this is not an attack on you or the subject of the article.
- Remember being listed for deletion does not automatically mean something will be deleted. Anyone can nominate an article for deletion so mistakes are made.
- If you think that your article should be kept your best bet is to dispassionately explain why you believe the article should not be deleted. As there is a presumption that an article should be kept, you simply need to show that the article's subject does not fall outside of Wikipedia guidelines.
- Cite sources for any claims you make. Useful reference pages are Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources.
- There are several guidelines which lay out general inclusion criteria for several subjects. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for bands, Wikipedia:Notability (websites) for Web sites or forums, or Wikipedia:Notability (people) for biographies.
What not to do
- Make personal attacks against the other people involved
- Try and recruit people from off Wikipedia to vote. Wikipedia commonly discounts votes (but not the arguments) of people who are not part of the community.
- Threaten to vandalise Wikipedia if you don't get your way. Wikipedians are not going to be positively influenced by this