BodyPride

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AfD nomination of Body Pride Ride

An editor has nominated Body Pride Ride, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Body Pride Ride and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 18:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Questions

In response to your question about where to work on an article "offline": If you would like to work on it while still seeing how it would appear on wikipedia, the best way to do it is to create a subpage of your user page, e.g. User:BodyPride/Body Pride Ride. You can read read more about this at Wikipedia:User page. You also asked about other unreferenced articles that are kept. There are two reasons for this. One is that though the articles are currently unreferenced, people who have stumbled on the page do not not doubt that references exist somewhere for the material. The other big reason is that Wikipedia is a very big place with a lot of dusty corners that unfortunatelydo not get checked much. You can read about that at WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. If you have any questions, you can ask on my talk page or at any of the resources available at Wikipedia:Questions. Best, nadav 20:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Body Pride Ride article

Hello. I'm going to close the deletion process on the Body Pride Ride article in favor of deleting it at this point. However, since you expressed an interest in working on the page a little more, I've moved a complete copy of its content into your userspace. You can find it at User:BodyPride/Body Pride Ride. Feel free to tinker with it and work on it as much as you like.

The main issue is that for an article to survive here, it has to pass Wikipedia's notability guidelines. The key here is non-trivial coverage in secondary sources (newspapers, etc). Check out Wikipedia's definition of a reliable source - in general, blogs and self-published websites don't count. Once you've got a little bit together in terms of sources which establish notability (again, according to Wikipedia's guidelines), you can re-create the article and it will be much more likely to survive.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Also, if you decide you don't want the article in your user space anymore, just let me know or put the following text at the top of the article: {{db-author}}. Good luck and don't let this sour you on Wikipedia; it's just the way the place works. MastCell ^Talk 04:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. BodyPride 08:02, 27 May 2007 (UTC)