User talk:TerranceDC

Proposed deletion of Roberto Duncanson

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Roberto Duncanson, 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 should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent 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.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because 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. Brianyoumans (talk) 15:16, 14 August 2008 (UTC) –[reply]

It must be deleted by now

I haven't been an active contributor since the ~~notoriety~~ notability requirement brought an end to my hate crimes project on Wikipedia, as I realized most of the cases I wanted to research and write up would not meet the notability requirement without significantly changing the focus of the project, which I intended to be on the victim at least as much as the event itself.

I have long since moved the project to its own site, which isn't linked from Wikipedia because there were guidelines against my linking it to it myself. So, like I said, I just read Wikipedia when I need it. Despite having articles featured on the front page, and receiving praise for my research and writing, I don't actively contribute anymore. It's not worth the effort if what I post is eventually going to come down. Sure, fewer people may read it if its not on Wikipedia, but that's something I'll have to learn to live with.

TerranceDC (talk) 16:40, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Murder of Jason Gage

The article Murder of Jason Gage has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

What is the significance of this particular muder? Thw Wiki would fill up very quickly if all murders had their own article.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. $Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} (Whisper...)$ 10:21, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Go Ahead and Delete Them All

I am no longer an active contributor to Wikipedia. I haven't been for years. I stopped adding hate crimes cases to Wikipedia when I realized the notability requirement negated the very cases I wanted to highlight. (I should note that the Nizah Morris article slated for deletion appeared on the front page of Wikipedia in the "Did You Know" box, FWIW -- which is apparently not much.) Instead I established my own freestanding site, where I can post and update entries on these crimes. I'd mention the site here, but that would be self-promotion.

I started this project because I was writing a post about hate crimes, and went to Wikipedia as a resource. I realized that of the cases I wanted to cover, only a handful were entered into Wikipedia. To look at Wikipedia, one would think that hate crimes are I set about trying to change that and -- as you've no doubt seen -- got pretty far before I started running into the notability guidelines, and started seeing entries removed. I quickly abandoned Wikipedia for reasons I'll spell out below.

These are cases that are virtually unknown, because they never made major headlines, catalyzed public response, caused major legislation, etc. The names and faces of the victims are unknown to most people. News articles about the crimes committed against them never got reported beyond local media, and have long since been buried behind the paywalls of local news outlets. I used my research skills and resources to get behind those paywalls, to try and create a publicly accessible record of their stories. Once I got started, I found that researching one story would often lead me to one or more that I added to a long backlog of stories I've yet to research. I'll never get to them all, but I will record as many as I can.

Occasionally, I will get an email from friends and family of the victims, thanking me for me for making a public record of their love-one's stories, and for ensuring that they were not forgotten. But beyond that, they are forgotten. And Wikipedia's notability guidelines suggest they should be.

So, no amount of editing is going to make them worthy of note -- certainly not enough to save them from deletion.

At this point, it looks like just about every contribution I've made to Wikipedia is slated for deletion. So be it. I've already preserved them elsewhere, and recorded many, many more that I never bothered trying to to enter into Wikipedia, because I'd learned my lesson at that point.

I've long since learned that Wikipedia is useless to me in the work I want to do. Its limitations make it so. It is useless to me as a resource, as it is unlikely to contain information about the kinds of cases I want to record, in order to make them accessible beyond the paywalls of local media archives, and also to give some inkling of the long history of hate crimes, the regularity with which they occur, and the diversity of the victims.

In that sense, I guess I believe they are worthy of note. But they will never notable enough for Wikipedia. So, delete them all.

TerranceDC (talk) 15:37, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Nireah Johnson

The article Nireah Johnson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A sad story but how is it noteable? Not all murders are.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. $Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} (Whisper...)$ 12:23, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]