User talk:Orcades

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Hello, Orcades, 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, like Why Call Me God? (book), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Why Call Me God? (book)

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Why Call Me God? (book), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Article does not indicate how this book fulfills Wikipedia's notability criteria.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. ... discospinster _talk 19:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Why Call Me God

A tag has been placed on Why Call Me God, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Why Call Me God and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Hairhorn (talk) 20:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to the Work of J. H. Hatfield in the Article 'Cain and Abel'

Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your participation. I think you should know, however, that yet another of your edits has been removed from Wikipedia. Upon researching the recent work of J. H. Hatfield, which you gave a prominent place in Cain and Abel, I have concluded that his work has at this point no place on Wikipedia. So far, I have found nothing to indicate that his (or her?) work is notable in any way. It is published by a publishing house that appears to be a publishing house in name only, has attracted the attention of no authority I've been able to find, and has been produced by a self-proclaimed scholar without any proven credentials. To be honest, I suspect that the user "Orcades" is either J. H. Hatfield himself or someone closely allied to J. H. Hatfield.

If at any point his work becomes recognized as valid by any significant scholar, I will have no problem with a mention of it in the Wikipedia article, although without the blantant self-promotion.

Regards, Mitchell Powell (talk) 20:07, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]