User talk:Onthedeck

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Thanks for the barnstar! Postoak (talk) 03:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your request for undeletion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is University of Houston Creative Writing Program. JohnCD (talk) 09:33, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

University of Houston Creative Writing Program

What you should do is approach the closing administrator, The Bushranger (talk) and tell him why you think there is evidence of WP:Notability for the program that was not brought out at the deletion discussion. Ask if he will "userfy" the article for you - move it into a sub-page in your user space where you can work on it to show how the program is notable in Wikipedia's sense, which requires references to "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See WP:Notability (summary) for what we mean by that. The only actual reference in the article, theatlantic.com, shows the program only as one in a list of fifty. That is not "significant coverage".

If he agrees to userfy it, you can work on it and go back to him when you think it is ready. He may agree that it can be posted, or re-list it for a new deletion discussion, or perhaps ask you to go to WP:Deletion review.

If you work on the article, I would advise removing or trimming the enormous lists. Certainly the list of over 100 (!) visiting writers should go - that is presumably available on the program's website for those who want to know. That level of detail is not appropriate for an encyclopedia article, and it looks like an attempt to say "See how notable we are, we had all these notable visitors!" Notability is not inherited by association. I would ditch the list of past faculty as well, maybe mentioning two or three of the most significant.

For general advice, see WP:Your first article, WP:Writing better articles and the WP:College and university article guidelines. JohnCD (talk) 20:01, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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