User talk:Seaslate
Re:Thank You
Well it is not my decision, it is the Wikipedia community's decision. When an article have more opposition to delete than support to delete or vise versa, than an administrator will close the discussion depending on what is the majority vote. I just recommend writing the article in a
Re:GossipReport.com
Hi, I'm sorry I wasn't able to get back to you sooner. I'm in an opera production that opens in two weeks and needless to say that has been taking up all of my free time, so I haven't been on Wikipedia as much. Anywho, to explain my thought process, I nominated GossipReport.com for deletion for two reasons:
- Although the article does have a good ammount of linked sources, many of them only reference GossipReport. For a source to be considered reliable and non trivial, it needs to actually cover the subject of the article, not simply reference it. See WP:Nfor more information about what constitutes a non-trivial source.
- I felt the tone of the article was more promotional than is appropriate for an encyclopedia article (I refer to this as "spammy"). I did not say that the article was blantant advertising (had this been the case, I would have nominated it for speedy deletion) I just felt it wasn't objective enough in its current form.
- Although the article does have a good ammount of linked sources, many of them only reference GossipReport. For a source to be considered reliable and non trivial, it needs to actually cover the subject of the article, not simply reference it. See
Please realize that I am only one Wikipedia editor with one opinion. I don't ultimately decide whether an article is deleted or not, the community does that via way of forming a consensus on the deletion discussion page. As of right now, it appears that unless a lot of contributors start commenting that they want deletion really soon, the discussion will close as no consensus. However, it can be relisted for deletion by another editor at any time. If you want to ensure that GossipReport.com is not deleted, see if you can add some additional non trivial sources (see the guidelines in
I hope this answers your questions. Cheers! Mr Senseless (talk) 19:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
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