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I have placed a tag on the article Marc Stefanuto a.k.a. Tortellini Luigi, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. I did this because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Marc Stefanuto a.k.a. Tortellini Luigi is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Marc Stefanuto a.k.a. Tortellini Luigi. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. You might also want to read our general biography criteria. Please do not just remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. –Sommers (Talk) 07:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey -- I just voted to delete this page. I wanted to mention WP:NOR to you -- check it out; Wikipedia specifically has a policy against publishing original research, which is why the page should be deleted. That said, the concept is somewhat interesting... it's just that Wikipedia is not a venue for giving exposure to new ideas. I'd make yourself a copy of the page for your own reference, in case it gets deleted, which it probably will. Welcome! Mangojuice 04:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- I was just going to post this myself. So ... uhh ... ditto, then. Feel free to post your theories elsewhere, and if it gets debated by millions around the world, we could always write a Wikipedia article about it. For now we'll have to remove it. Thanks anyway for trying to contribute, though, and don't take this as any indication that your contributions aren't welcome. Fagstein 04:35, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- Also, feel free to put it on your User page. That's the place for stuff like this. Fagstein 04:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
(MJ again.) Quoting your response on the AfD page:
Professors at my Univerisity (NYU) have encouraged me to publish this article at Wikipedia as a testing ground for a potential Senior Thesis that I will be writing. Please allow this article to stay up as I would appreciated feedback on this article, and perhaps help me to write a better thesis. This is not something I just made up, but is rather the fruit of months of careful reasearch, study and polling. Please allow it to stay.User: DA_Scar 20:26, 11 February 2006
- I feel bad for you if this is true, and I can believe it's possible. You should show your professor(s) this page and the WP:NOR page: it would be good to educate them that Wikipedia is NOT for this kind of thing. Perhaps you could try a usenet group? I'm afraid I don't have any specific suggestions myself. Mangojuice 04:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Now that your theory is on your user page where it belongs, I thought I might look at it more carefully and make comments on it. Note that I'm not a sociologist. I see two logical problems. First of all, crayon colors are not skin colors. In fact, making a skin color in crayon is always very difficult, and a lot of artistic skill would be needed to make colors that differentiate, for example, between Asian and Caucasian skin tones. The notion that Asian people have yellow skin, and thus translating a disliking for yellow into a disliking of Asians, is more of a societal construct than a natural thing: Asians don't really have yellow skin, after all; the color of their skin is much more difficult to describe. Second, there's a disconnect because racism really isn't about skin color, it's about racial identification. Perhaps, anti-African racism by white people fits this category, but what about Shia/Sunni racism? Or anti-Italian racism? Those forms absolutely exist, and must not be based on skin color. Racism, at its core, is really more like nationalism: people naturally prefer people like themselves, and disparage those of other races to elevate themselves (or their race). Mangojuice 13:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I've added the "{{prod}}" template to your user page (User:DA Scar), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy).
Please note that the purpose of a user page is not as personal homepage or used as a general webhosting service, but as way for active editors of Wikipedia to introduce themselves to other editors. If you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues here or on my user talk page. You may remove the deletion notice, and the page will not be deleted for the moment, but note that it may still be sent to Miscellany for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Calton | Talk 07:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)