Talk:Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting

I see no reason for the "advertisement" flag on this page. The article is a straightforward explanation of the scope and history of the Yearly Meeting, along with a brief explanation of liberal Quakerism. I am removing the flag.

SoaringBird (talk) 01:53, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I see little to no reason for the POV flag. THe tone of the article is straightforward and without emotional content. I am removing the flag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SoaringBird (talk • contribs) 01:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

May I suggest you get yourself a blog? This is an encyclopedia, not a blog. History2007 (talk) 17:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Interesting. OVYM is part of the history of Quakerism, especially with relevance to anti-slavery efforts, and thus is a relevant encyclopedic entry. The page was first tagged inappropriately (see tag bombing - no explanations included with the tags), and then it was removed without discussion (deletion guidelines appear to be arbitrary). SoaringBird (talk) 20:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I did explain the tags to you. The article was written by the Meeting itself, so WP:COI. It talked about 'our' (can't remember what came after that) which is clearly inappropriate. It was also a copyright violation and deleting copyvio is something we always do. It didn't follow our manual of style guidelines at all. The article itself was not deleted. I have suggested you help write a good article and asked at two Wikiprojects for help. The anti-slavery thing sounds interesting but got only a trivial mention. I also think there was far too much detail. The 'thoughts' at the end was totally inappropriate. It had no reliable third party sources. I could go on but it wouldn't really be constructive. Read up on our guidelines and policies and gradually help build a new article which follows them. Dougweller (talk) 22:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

SoaringBird, do take a look at the two references I added. Those are called WP:RS sources, from well known publishers and confirm that the Yearly Meeting is WP:Notable. Please read WP:RS, then use that type of book. This page will no get deleted now, but to build it up you need to use books like The Quakers in America published by Columbia University Press which are WP:RS. Please also see WP:USERG which may partially apply, with the limitations of WP:SELFSOURCE in any case. History2007 (talk) 10:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)