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Page restored as a contested Proposed Deletion. Explanation and more advice soon, but maybe not till tomorrow. Meanwhile, WP:Biographies of living persons/Help has good advice for anyone concerned about their Wikipedia article. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Why, and what next
[edit]The article was deleted in December 2009 under a process called WP:Proposed deletion or PROD, where a notice giving a reason for deletion is placed on an article and, if there are no objections in seven days and an administrator agrees with the reason given, the article is deleted. Since that process is intended for uncontroversial deletions, anyone may challenge it and, even after the article is deleted, it will be restored on request.
The reason given in this case was "No indication of notability other than Primary sources". As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is selective about article subjects: our inclusion criterion is called notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The point is that we don't form a judgement of what is important or significant; we ask, have other people, independent of the subject, found it interesting and important enough to write about?
Having restored the article, I shall now notify the two users who proposed it, Shadowjams (talk · contribs) and Aka042 (talk · contribs). Once restored, an article cannot be PRODded again, but they may choose to nominate it under the WP:Articles for deletion (AfD) process, which would start a debate lasting seven days, to which you could contribute, and at the end of which an uninvolved administrator would decide what to do. (I am sorry to weary you with so much detail of Wikipedia's internal bureaucracy, but it will help you to understand what is going on).
At this point I have to invite you read Wikipedia's guideline Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. As an anyone-can-edit encyclopedia, Wikipedia is very sensitive to the danger of being used for advertising and self-promotion. The best way to handle the issue is to be absolutely open - your user-name helps - declare your identity when asking for help, and suggest improvements on your article's talk page at Talk:Lauren Boquette rather than make them yourself. What it needs is independent references; I suggest that rather than add them yourself you make a note of them on the talk page, and see whether someone else will insert them and do any necessary rewriting. I will explain the situation to the two users who PRODded the article, and it may be that one of them will be willing to help; alternatively you can ask for help at the WP:Help desk, or by putting {{helpme}} (two curly brackets each side) on the article talk page with a request below.
Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:07, 6 November 2010 (UTC)