User talk:Vancouver cigegret
A tag has been placed on Great canadian shoreline cleanup, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.
If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Great canadian shoreline cleanup and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Finngall talk 22:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Generally, we discourage contributions where the editor has a conflict of interest, since that makes it difficult to maintain a neutral point of view. To help with that neutrality, it is best that all material in an article is verifiable from reliable sources that are independent of the subject. (If those can't be found, then the subject is certainly not notable enough to merit an encyclopedia article in the first place--and remember, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a provider of free web space.) The Sun Run article is written in a mostly neutral manner and cites multiple outside references.
- I see that your article has been deleted; please note that this does not preclude you recreating the article again, but if the content is not substantially improved, it's liable to get deleted all over again. If you wish to continue to work on the article, I recommend creating a subpage of your userpage to use as a private workspace. You can then move or copy the finished product to the main article space.
- I hope this helps. Let me know if you have further questions. --Finngall talk 22:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Looks better, though rather than starting with the history the article should begin with a proper lead section. See also Wikipedia's manual of style for hints on proper style and formatting. Thank you for your time. --Finngall talk 17:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)