User talk:Amz-usf

December 2016

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16:04, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Coach Billy Turner for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Coach Billy Turner is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coach Billy Turner until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 20:34, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to talk page message

Hi there, I just read the message you left on my talk page about not understanding why the Coach Billy Turner article is up for deletion. Did you read the post on the discussion page where Bearcat tried to explain this to you, or read the guidelines he pointed out? This would be the first step in understanding why it's up for deletion. As for helping you correct the article, I don't know what you mean by correcting. If the subject doesn't pass notability guidelines for inclusion, there's nothing I can correct that would make the person notable.

I also note this statement you made on my talk page, "The man is dying and I would like to do this as my assignment but also as a tribute for all his work". I'm sorry to hear this but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a place for posting tributes to people. If you want to pay tribute to him, I'm sure you could find many sites online where those types of articles can be written, but Wikipedia is not one of them. Cmr08 (talk) 06:34, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't have an issue with the references, I was just doing cleanup by grouping them. That's a common thing to do, it just means that instead of writing the same citation 6 times, we can give the first appearance a group name, and then just use the group name for the other 5 times. It's still there in the article, but listed once. WP:REFNAME explains this better that I can.

As for the notability, I rarely get involved, leaving that to more experienced editors or those more familiar with the topic. I usually just do cleanup and have no real opinion as to the notability of the subject. The best thing to do here, is to make your case on the deletion discussion page rather than my talk page since it has a better chance of being seen by other editors where on my talk page, the only person whose going to see it is me. Cmr08 (talk) 08:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed you posted to the deletion discussion before I even left my reply asking you to discuss there. Must have been editing at the same time, I wouldn't have mentioned this if I checked before saving, sorry. Cmr08 (talk) 09:00, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]