User talk:Terinjokes

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PROD of LOLCODE

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article LOLCODE, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. ais523 09:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The reason that I {{prod}}ded the article was that it had been deleted twice before; I keep a watch on Category:Esoteric programming languages, partly because pages there often have notability problems, and when I noticed the new entry I noticed that there were still no sources independent of the source given. This is the usual condition to show that an article's subject is sufficiently notable for inclusion; that it has sources independent of the subject itself (and such sources are also needed for the article to be verifiable. I placed the prod on the article in case it had been abandoned (as often happens with new entries, and in which case it probably would have been correct to delete the article); the fact that someone (in this case you) removed it (which is fine, that's how prod works) implies that someone was willing to help improve the article to a point where it doesn't need deletion, and that's even better. As for your talk page comment saying that other articles have the same problems, that sort of thing happens a lot, because nobody can catch every problem with the encyclopedia at once (and there's an essay about that); I'll go and propose that article for deletion too.

As for the article itself, it looks like a perfectly good stub, apart from the lack of sources. Some things on that page are likely correctly sourcable from the LOLCODE homepage itself (I may look into that at some point), but synthesis of facts and opinions (as opposed to simple restatement of facts) are supposed to be sourced from secondary sources with the same opinion, to show that they aren't just original research by the author (this would be a point of policy difference between Wikipedia and Wikinews). I've only made one small change for the time being (adding an As of link to the page, to show that it may need updating in the future; something else that doesn't happen on Wikinews, but isn't high-priority and which a user unfamiliar with Wikipedia (and many users familiar with it) wouldn't be expected to know about), but may look into the matter more deeply in the future. Hope that helps! ais523 11:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AFD

Your comments seem to indicate that you think you opened an AFD on May 2010 Pichilemu earthquake. You didn't. All you did was tag the article for improvement.—Kww(talk) 01:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Saw that you had created the AFD but not finished the tagging or listing of the AFD. Finished it for you. Next time you want to do one, ask, and I'll walk you through it.—Kww(talk) 01:50, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]