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George Petre
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Plant communication??
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Dear Petreg,
As I wondered by in the speedy deletion article category, I discovered the article you created about National Identity and Language. I saw your response about the speedy deletion proposal and decided to delete the banner. Simply because your article doesn't meet the speedy deletions criteria. But your article need a complete rewrite if you want it to stay on wikipedia.
What I mean by a complete rewrite is that in the current form this article is an unsourced, unreferenced essay. While an essay is the type of work you may be required to do for a term paper, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
First of all please familiarize yourself with WP:NOT to know what type of article can't be posted on wikipedia (your article fit in Original Research category). Then read the WP:OR which is the official policy which explain what is Original Research and why it can't be included in wikipedia.
The difference between an essay and an encyclopedic article is that the essay is a research in itself, it's a paper done to try to prove a point of view, an encyclopedic article is a summary of the knowledge gathered through others research (while citing them) about a particular subject. An essay have a thesis, give argument and give exemple. An encyclopedic article don't have a thesis, nor give an argument, it give some statement followed by sources from which those statement are issued. This process is following one of the three core content guideline Verifiability (the two others are Neutral Point of View and No Original Research ).
You can write about a theory however, for example see the Quantum mechanics or General relativity to give you an idea about how an encyclopedic article look like (sadly I got no Wikipedia:Featured Article to show right now on a theory).
Your article got also some heavy copyediting to do, but that's secondary and I would say entirely normal due to your relatively youth in the wikipedia community. For example the lead of the article should contain the article name in bold. It should begin like "National identity and language (which is by the way the correct capitalisation of the title) is the theory about blablabla<ref="Source1">Robert Duchesne, ''The Relationship between national identity and language''</ref>"
The heading should not be written all in cap.
To sum it up, you will have to completly rewrite this article if you want it to stay in wikipedia. If you think you are able to completly rewrite the article, to meet those criteria do it and delete the tags at the top of the article. If you don't think you are up to this task this article will be deleted in 5 days. (NB: The proposed deletion process give you a delay to manage to rewrite this article, and if you delete this banner, nobody will normally delete this article afterwards. But if you delete this tag without improving the article, this article will most certainly pass through the Article for deletion process in which the deletion is debated and in your case I doubt that your vow to improve the article will influence the consensus that may form there, and in the article case, this article will be deleted).
If you got the gut for it but someone send the article for deletion while you are rewriting it to make it a great article, copy the article and create a subpages in your userpage called User:Petrag/National identity and language, where you will paste your article before deletion so you got a copy to work on and not start again from scratch.
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