Connorwillis1
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Hello, Connorwillis1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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editYour article has been deleted under a process called WP:Proposed deletion or PROD, by which a tag or "template" is placed on the article giving reasons why it should be deleted. Anyone may remove the template, but if it is still there after a week the article may be deleted. You should have been notified and given the opportunity to remove the PROD: I apologise that you were not. The article will still be restored if you request it, either on my talk page or at WP:REFUND.
But I advise you not to bother, because it would simply be nominated again for deletion, by a different process, WP:Articles for deletion, which involves a seven day discussion. The problem with it is that, as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia only summarises things that have already been published - it is not a place for anything new or original. Two of its key policies are:
- WP:Verifiability: The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth; that is, whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true.
- WP:No original research: Wikipedia does not publish original research. The term "original research" refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and stories—not already published by reliable sources.
The person who PRODded the article searched for any confirmation of what you wrote, without success, and so did I before I deleted it. If you can show any sources, you are welcome to put the article in again, and in that case I would restore it, if you liked, into your WP:User space where you could work on it.
The links above, particularly WP:Your first article, will tell you more about contributing. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)