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A tag has been placed on University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
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Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:37, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
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okay, as i am new to all this and learning, let me see if i understand this correctly...we can have a page, but the username has to be an individual and not the name of the organization? honestly, our sister organizations are on wikipedia and that's how i research. that's what we're hoping to do with this page. thanks for you time.—Preceding unsigned comment added by UHTheatreDance (talk • contribs)
You don't seem to get it. Nobody "has" a page in Wikipedia. We seek articles (written by impartial third parties without conflict of interest about notable topics. Those articles may then be edited by anybody who keeps to our policies about reliable sources and verifiability. There may be articles about other departments at UH; that does not make those articles "theirs"; and if the articles are not up to our standards, they may be deleted. (See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.) Individual people in your or any other department are welcome to become editors here; but I'd strongly advise against thinking that this licenses you to create an article about your department under a new name. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC)