Template talk:Proposed deletion notify-NPF

Dennis Roy Allen

I hope this is directed to Onel5969...

You stated you want to delete this item (Dennis Allen page). My first feeling was "yeah, whatever..." I then reflected back on why I created the page... I saw the guy on Laugh-In, and didn't know who he was. Did some detective work, and got a notion of who he was. As I love to rely on Wikipedia in finding info such as this, I thought it would be okay to put a page up about this comedian, figuring that it would benefit others who might like to know a little bit about him, and not go through the process I just went through (took a fair amount of scouring the internet). But if he's a tiny speck in the whole scheme of things, by all means, take it down, my goodness, there must be more important things to write about. I have to laugh, in part at my naivity in not understanding(nor wanting to understand) all of the complexities that make up Wikipedia and those very complexities themselves. I guess some people make it a minor career in this process, of all the rules, pages, cross-references to more rule pages, additional rule pages, editing rules, posting rules, these rules, those rules....YIKES!! Yet I do appreciate that it must take tremendous time, resources and money to keep such a massive project going, and I guess fringe information is the first to be deleted... And rules need to be implemented to facilitate these decisions. And I do get a kick out of the ambiguity sometimes, like from the Five Pillars page, the fifth being "Wikipedia has no firm rules..." REALLY NOW!!! Just to reference one... Anyway, it was just an honest attempt to add the tiniest sliver of info on an obscure comdian I saw on TV, that I could not find much info about elsewhere. Now that I know who he is, I'm satisfied with my knowledge discovery, whether others need that knowledge is up to you to decide, and it seems you already have, so delete it, I really don't care. AA Pilot16 AA Pilot16 (talk) 05:06, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Who is this template designed for?

If it's designed for new users, a) why? there's no reason only new users would be being PROD'd by Page Curation users; and b) do we really want to use the phrasing "I believe your work obviously and uncontroversially does not belong in an encyclopedia" for a PROD for someone who's creating their first article? It's a bit harsh to my mind, irrespective of whether that's what the PROD actually means.

If it's not designed only for new users, why is this reading like a welcome template?

The design of this template confuses me greatly. Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 13:42, 8 May 2020 (UTC)