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A tag has been placed on Gale Gand, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
If you feel that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. —68.239.79.82 11:35, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia articles must be based on reliable sources to establish notability ... without them, Gale Gand is just original research, which is prohibited by official policy.
Please read the Wikipedia official policies and guidelines that list the criteria for Notability (people) (WP:BIO) and Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) for further information ... if you have written this article about yourself or a close relative, then you also need to read both Autobiography (WP:AUTO) and Conflict of interest (WP:COI).
As a litmus test of WP:A for a biographical article, there should be enough WP:RS publications about the subject that the first paragraph answers the questions "When and where was he born?" with a properly referenced citation ... for example, consider the following:
John Quincy Public (1963-11-23 to 2001-09-11) was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan.[1] He is notable for coincidentally having been born on the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination, surviving the same accident on the day of the first moon landing that killed both of his parents, and having died on the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lane, Lois (2002-01-14). "The Coincidental Life and Death of John Q. Public". Daily Planet. p. 13. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
Just in case your article has already been deleted, please read What to do after your speedy delete has been restored to better understand what's probably going to happen if you disagree with at least two other editors who feel that the subject is not Notable enough by Wikipedia standards for an article.
Happy Editing! —68.239.79.82 11:35, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Lafong ...
I noticed that you had made a Very Common newbie mistake in trying to archive the Gale Gand article before it evaporates ... you copy&pasted the displayed version rather than the document source (you should open it via EDIT THIS PAGE and then copy what's in that dialog window) ... I did the right thing and replaced the copy you made in your sandbox, but Esmeralda Ortega (talk · contribs) must have thought that I was an anonymous vandal and reverted it.
Well, I tried to help, but since it is obviously not appreciated, I shall not be offering it to you again.
Last bit of advice ... you can have multiple sandboxes with practically any name, not just "/sandbox" (BTW, you could have called it "/Gale Gand") ... please see the lists of my sandboxes for examples ... I just haven't created the redlinked ones yet.
Happy Editing! —68.239.79.82 (talk · contribs) 01:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
A note
[edit]I saw you tried to make a page protect request, to do so, you need to go to WP:RPP. However I checked the article and it has no recent vandalism. If there is vandalism to the article in the future, you can report it when that happens. Momo san Gespräch 06:10, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Bronx Zoo
[edit]So take a stab at it yourself. There is information on the Web now that should help fill in at least some of the gaps. We are talking history here. GOING to the zoo doesn't help much for that section, so you can probably do as much justice there as any "school kid". Donlammers (talk) 09:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
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