User talk:Mark Rosenthal

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Hello, Mark Rosenthal, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! NYCRuss ☎ 18:05, 13 April 2012 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Louis Killen

I'm hoping that this is the account that emailed me about the above linked article. Sorry for responding here, but I generally do not respond directly to Wikipedia emails for a number of reasons.

But that aside, while it is theoretically possible to actually permanently delete things from the Wikipedia DB, in practice it almost never happens. "Deletion" Is normally just a matter of hiding material from all but selected users. Base deletion hides it from all non-admins. There's a deeper level called Oversight that hides things even from most admins. Oversight is generally only used for truly vile stuff. Particularly bad WP:BLP violations and so on. But the edits in question were only done by basic admin deletion. And such deletion is always easily reversed if the situation changes.

That aside, there are a couple of possible paths forward. There's not much to work from in the deleted article. A few bits of information, no sourcing, no real indication that the subject meets the project's notability rules. I suggest you first check out WP:MUSIC for the specific notability rules for musicians. If, after reading that, you think that you can show that he meets those requirements (and I mean that he meets WP's definition of Notability, not any definition that you come up with yourself) then the likely next step would be for me to userify the old article. That'll give you what little there was there as a starting point, in your user space where you'll have more freedom to work on it without threat of it being deleted again. When you think you have it sourced well enough to show that it meets WP's notability requirements, it can then be moved back to article space.

Does that sound reasonable? - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:05, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Mark, thanks for your comment at my talk page. I have posted my response to your points there User talk:Robynthehode. Robynthehode (talk) 09:01, 29 October 2019 (UTC)