User talk:Madstilt

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Hello, Madstilt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as DistrACTIVE art, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of DistrACTIVE art[edit]

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Proposed deletion of DistrACTIVE art[edit]

The article DistrACTIVE art has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Declined speedy nomination because doesn't meet strict criteria. However minimal content, no assertion of notability, no sources, unlikely to be expandable.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 14:40, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, just following up the automated note above. I declined the nomination to speedily delete this article, not because it is a great piece of work but rather because the strict criteria for speedy deletion didn't apply here (they only apply to organisations, people, animals and websites!) However I would strongly suggests blanking this article and moving it to your user space where you can work on it at leisure to tidy it up and find some good sources for it. I can see from a Google search that it's not a hoax, but it needs MUCH more work and will be safer away from main space. If you don't know how to do this, please reply here and I will help. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 14:47, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Kim sorry for the really late reply, thanks for the nice message, I'm quite new to wikipedia and I was tring to give a contribution that unfortunately I was not able to finish in few days. I'd really like to understand how to proceed with this kind of cases. thanks in advance

Hi there, glad you got the message and glad that you're back! The thing to do is establish a draft in your user space; you can start any number of pages there in the form User:Madstilt/DistrACTIVE draft by just typing in any other name after the / in that red link. If you click on the link it will ask if you want to create the page; say yes and when you come back here the link will be blue because the page now exists! Then you can slowly work on it in your own time, adding reliable sources and getting it ready to publish back in main space at DistrACTIVE art. Be sure to ask other editors for a review before you republish however, to make sure that it's in good shape and doesn't get proposed for deletion again. Ask again here if you have any questions! Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 19:42, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]