User talk:Jon Roland

Welcome!

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Your Article[edit]

The tags are there to help us improve the article so please do not remove them. --Spartaz 18:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Select militia AfD[edit]

Your article, select militia, has been nominated for deletion by another editor. I thought you might want to contribute to the discussion. See the Talk Page to discuss. Nimur 23:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Jon roland[edit]

An article you created. Jon Roland, has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia: Articles for deletion/Jon Roland. Dragomiloff 09:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't create it. It was created by someone else, but as a stub, citing that I was the Libertarian Party candidate for Texas Attorney General. It was pointed out to me and I found it needed some additional content, after the election. While I had it open for editing, someone else deleted it, so that when I aved my edit it appeared I was creating a new article. Jon Roland 20:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jon Roland repost[edit]

The article Jon Roland was deleted as a repost of an article deleted by consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Roland. Please do not repost it again. If you want a review of the deletion decision, go to Wikipedia:Deletion review. NawlinWiki 14:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Constitution Society[edit]

It looks like you haven't read the policy documents that are being referenced in the deletion review of Constitution Society:

WP:NPOV (Neutral point of view): All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing views fairly, proportionately and without bias.
WP:AUTO (Autobiography): You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

You can probably see that the policy on Autobiographies is an extension of the NPOV policy, we as a community do not trust ourselves to be unbiased about ourselves, our achievements, and the things we are involved in.

Another issue that your article may have suffered from (I don't know because I never saw it), is one of verifiability. I think that it is generally the key to having an article that is not deleted. If third party reliable sources have written about the Constitution Society and everything that you write in the article about the Constitution Society can be referenced from one of those sources, then it is easy for other editors to read those sources and clear up any neutrality issues. It is also then easier to determine that the Constitution Society is a notable organization that is deserving of a Wikipedia article.

All of the above is my interpretation. Please read the linked documents to help you determine your own interpretation. I would recommend that you try to produce a well-referenced article from scratch and submit it through the WP:AfC (Articles for Creation) process, where experienced editors can help you to produce an acceptable article. ~ Bigr Tex 17:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tex beat me to it. This is not about your beliefs or your content, and certainly not about any personal animus, it's about the fact that no reliable sources have been provided to back the article's inclusion, and even if they were, you would not be the best person to judge their significance. Simple as that, really. It has to be said that there are a good number of us who really really don't like people arguing extensively over the deletion of articles on their own endeavours - it's very bad form. Go and have a chat with User:Stephen B Streater about this, he has walked this path himself, but he managed to come back from that and is a respected editor. Guy (Help!) 19:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to the Militia article.[edit]

I encourage you to discuss the edits you desire to make to the in the Militia article which seem to be original research. SaltyBoatr 15:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to WP:3O[edit]

Hey. Comments on the third opinion page are supposed to be neutral, so I've removed your comment from the page. I would encourage you to add the comment to the Militia talk page. Thanks! — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 16:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article categories[edit]

I deactivated the categories that belong only in "article space" or "wikipedia space" from the pages you have in your "user space". Categories like Category:Militia are only for articles. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 19:53, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect[edit]

I noticed that you created a redirect from Society for Constitutional Information to London Corresponding Society. These were two distinct organizations and thus require two distinct pages. I am going to try and figure out how to uncreate the redirect. Thanks. Awadewit | talk 21:48, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

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MfD nomination of User:Jon Roland[edit]

User:Jon Roland, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jon Roland and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Jon Roland during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 16:38, 8 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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