User talk:Ryanpadden11

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Your contributed article, Willie Joe Padden

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Willie Joe Padden. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Billy Joe Padden. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Billy Joe Padden – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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I realise that's a mistake, and Willie Joe is not the same person as Billy Joe, but his father, so I have declined the speedy deletion nomination. However, it's very important that you add to the article some reference, like a newspaper or a website, to confirm what it says. Wikipedia has a policy of verifiability: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source", and for living people that is so important that an article will be deleted after ten days if not reference has been added. You can look at the Billy Joe Padden article to see how references are added, or if you want help adding them, just list them on the article's talk page Talk:Willie Joe Padden. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:43, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have added two references, but any more you can find would be welcome. JohnCD (talk) 22:11, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]