User talk:Camcc422

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Hello, Camcc422, 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, such as Amphetamines and Friendly Fire Incidents, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Nat Gertler (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Amphetamines and Friendly Fire Incidents

The article Amphetamines and Friendly Fire Incidents has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

After deleting unsourced material of strong BLP concerns, what little is left appears to be an essay of original research.

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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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. Nat Gertler (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad you're launching in and trying to build an article of substance. Don't take the call for the article's deletion personally - what it faces is a couple of key points of Wikipedia policy, and to a large extent both arise from a single problem with the article - it's lack of references. Wikipedia doesn't run on what is true, it runs on what is verifiable - what can be confirmed from reliable published sources - and what is notable -- what is already being published in signficant sources.

Without references, we:

don't know that the topic is notable.
don't know that the information your posting is verifiable, rather than the result of your own investigation, suspicion, or bias.
cannot protect ourselves over concerns about defamation. Wikipedia has some strong specific policies regarding biographical information, particularly where it may be contentious. In what was removed, you made specific claims about named persons that painted them in a bad light, and policy requires that this be done only when it's referenced to a reliable source.

I hope you'll continue to try to build Wikipedia. If you have any questions about this, please let me know on my talk page. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Amphetamines and Friendly Fire Incidents for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Amphetamines and Friendly Fire Incidents is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amphetamines and Friendly Fire Incidents until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. UtherSRG (talk) 13:35, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend that you go to the article for deletions discussion and ask to have the page userified should the "delete" consensus be reached (which appears almost certain at this point, as no one is arguing to keep the article). This means that the page will be taken out of article space, but put into your private editing space - so if need be, you could show it to your professor there (as well as pointing him toward the deletion discussion.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:30, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]