User talk:Welsh/Archives/2010/August

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Speedy deletion nomination of Robert W. Boyle

A tag has been placed on Robert W. Boyle requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Proposed deletion of The Pivot of Civilization

Hey, I thought you might be interested in this, since you'd edited the page.

The article The Pivot of Civilization has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This page is almost completely unmaintained (only six edits in the six months since its original author was indefinitely blocked from editing Wikipedia), almost completely unlinked (only from Eugenics and Margaret Sanger), completely unreferenced (and unlikely to be referenced in the future; I can't find any articles about the book), and almost completely unread (stats.grok.se says it was viewed about three or four times a day last month). The original author of this article appears to have written it as a way to push their POV that Margaret Sanger was evil. As a result of these circumstances, the article is of very poor quality; aside from its grammatical errors, before my recent edit, it entirely failed to mention the main subject of the book it's ostensibly written about, which is birth control (or, as Sanger wrote, Birth Control.) Given the non-notability of the book, as manifested by all of these circumstances and by the fact that the book has only four reviews on Amazon despite having been published 88 years ago, it is very unlikely that anyone will ever take the trouble to bring this article up to Wikipedia standards.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kragen Javier Sitaker (talk) 03:00, 15 August 2010 (UTC)