User talk:SusanSJPR

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January 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your comments, which you added in discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South Jersey Paranormal Research. Please note that on Wikipedia, consensus is determined by discussion, not voting, and it is the quality of arguments that counts, not the number of people supporting a position. Consider reading about the deletion policy for a brief overview for the deletion process, and how we decide what to keep and what to delete. We hope you decide to stay and contribute even more. Thank you! Keep or Delete "votes" should be accompanied by a reason for keep or delete based on wikipedia policies or guidelines. In this case those "voting" for keep need to present reliable sources showing the the WP:ORG criteria are met. Thanks! Verbal chat 11:28, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

South Jersey Paranormal Research

I don't feel the argument to delete my group's page, South Jersey Paranormal Research, was valid. Those for deletion just kept saying that we have no notariety - how much more notariety than national media attention is required?? Also, the voting within the discussion was clearly for keeping the article, yet you deleted it anyway. Why go through the pains of a discussion and voting if you plan to do just as you pleased anyway? It was mentioned that there were "first time visitors" to page. That's because when people heard of the deletion, they signed up to put in their 2 cents and have their opinions heard.

If these are the unfair, unwarranted practices that you use as a Wikipedia administrator, you really have no business in that role. Be that as it may, I am requesting that the article be reinstated. SusanSJPR —Preceding unsigned comment added by SusanSJPR (talk • contribs) 19:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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You seem to have found the wrong section of my message wizard — instead of choosing Copyright, you should have followed the directions under "Articles for deletion".

Articles for deletion is not a vote, but an attempt to establish a consensus among established Wikipedia users as to whether the article should be kept or deleted. The normal practice at AFD is that contributions from new users are given less weight.

There were ten people suggesting deleting the article, and of the eleven people suggesting keeping it, four were new or single-purpose accounts (yourself, Tom Butler, JennaBugg, and Twostars n saturn), and four were weak. As such, my feeling is that the consensus of established users was that the article should be deleted.

If you feel that I have not correctly followed the official deletion policy, you are entitled to appeal my decision at Wikipedia:Deletion review. When doing so, it is recommended you be more civil. Stifle (talk) 20:17, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article South Jersey Paranormal Research, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Stifle (talk) 20:17, 12 January 2009 (UTC)