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I just created this article based on the news report of Kennedy's death. It's the first article I've ever created so please be patient with me. I know it's a stub that needs a lot of work and any help you can offer is appreciated. Feel free to discuss my new "child" with me at my talk page. Guyovski ( talk) 02:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
== Proposed deletion discussion ==
I have to express some concern that the deletion tag was placed on this article seconds after I created it, the only notification I received was a template on my talk page, and I don't have an opportunity to discuss the merits of deletion in any forum that other people are likely to know exists. The latter especially makes it unlikely that there will be any discussion of issues involving multiple editors. So the way this matter has been handled may be within the letter of Wikipedia policy, but I see it as heavy-handed and unkind.
As to the substantive issues, this article is, in my opinion, written in an encyclopedic style, so I don't agree that it is a news report. I also assert that the subject of this article has sufficient, if minor, notability to merit a Wikipedia article. I acknowledge that this article has significant drawbacks in being a stub and relying on only one source, but I have already created a talk page entry asking for assistance in expanding it. I am a very new editor and need such help. Many other articles are even shorter stubs with even worse referencing but they have not been proposed for deletion, and I have personally seen articles with NO cited sources that have not been proposed for deletion. Consistency demands that this article be given a fair chance to survive.
I have not removed the deletion tag from the article because I want to be more fair to the editor who placed it on the article than that editor has been to me, namely, by giving that editor an opportunity to respond to what I have said here. Anyone else who wishes to respond is of course welcome to.
Guyovski (
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As per my talk page, I am taking the position that I am no longer the original creator of this article. What I originally wrote was an encyclopedia entry, but it was totally rewritten to become just a bare news report of Kennedy's death. That appears to be the form in which the editor who proposed deletion found it, and her recommendation to delete it now strikes me as understandable, and a recommendation with which I fully agree. For that reason, I am retracting everything I said in the above section and editing it with strikethrough. The article is being rapidly improved and looking more and more encyclopedic, but it no longer has any connection whatsoever to what I originally wrote, which was my only contribution to the article. As a result, I am ceding authorship of this article to anyone who wants it. All material on my talk page that relates to this article will be purged as clutter once other editors have had an opportunity to make copies of it. I plan to wait 24 hours before I do the purge. Thank you for your time. Guyovski ( talk) 04:02, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
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I just created this article based on the news report of Kennedy's death. It's the first article I've ever created so please be patient with me. I know it's a stub that needs a lot of work and any help you can offer is appreciated. Feel free to discuss my new "child" with me at my talk page. Guyovski ( talk) 02:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
== Proposed deletion discussion ==
I have to express some concern that the deletion tag was placed on this article seconds after I created it, the only notification I received was a template on my talk page, and I don't have an opportunity to discuss the merits of deletion in any forum that other people are likely to know exists. The latter especially makes it unlikely that there will be any discussion of issues involving multiple editors. So the way this matter has been handled may be within the letter of Wikipedia policy, but I see it as heavy-handed and unkind.
As to the substantive issues, this article is, in my opinion, written in an encyclopedic style, so I don't agree that it is a news report. I also assert that the subject of this article has sufficient, if minor, notability to merit a Wikipedia article. I acknowledge that this article has significant drawbacks in being a stub and relying on only one source, but I have already created a talk page entry asking for assistance in expanding it. I am a very new editor and need such help. Many other articles are even shorter stubs with even worse referencing but they have not been proposed for deletion, and I have personally seen articles with NO cited sources that have not been proposed for deletion. Consistency demands that this article be given a fair chance to survive.
I have not removed the deletion tag from the article because I want to be more fair to the editor who placed it on the article than that editor has been to me, namely, by giving that editor an opportunity to respond to what I have said here. Anyone else who wishes to respond is of course welcome to.
Guyovski (
talk) 03:01, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
As per my talk page, I am taking the position that I am no longer the original creator of this article. What I originally wrote was an encyclopedia entry, but it was totally rewritten to become just a bare news report of Kennedy's death. That appears to be the form in which the editor who proposed deletion found it, and her recommendation to delete it now strikes me as understandable, and a recommendation with which I fully agree. For that reason, I am retracting everything I said in the above section and editing it with strikethrough. The article is being rapidly improved and looking more and more encyclopedic, but it no longer has any connection whatsoever to what I originally wrote, which was my only contribution to the article. As a result, I am ceding authorship of this article to anyone who wants it. All material on my talk page that relates to this article will be purged as clutter once other editors have had an opportunity to make copies of it. I plan to wait 24 hours before I do the purge. Thank you for your time. Guyovski ( talk) 04:02, 19 June 2012 (UTC)