User talk:KnightStrider
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[edit] AfD nomination of Mapic
Mapic, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Mapic satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mapic and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Mapic during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Pigman 17:19, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I have added my support for the Mapic article. Please do not get discouraged, the trouble is that we get loads of articles on obscure events, bands, people, ..., which have to be deleted to maintain some kind of encyclopedic standard here. Sometimes people (me included) wrongly think that an article about something they haven't heard about and which does not yet have the reliable independent sources every good article should have, must be about something not worthy of an article. Often they are right, but the trouble is those times, like now, when they are wrong, and a few minutes time (and some Googling experience) could have learned them this. I hope you will stay around and let this bad experience not taint your image of Wikipedia too much. It has many nice aspects as well. Fram 14:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for your support and your encouragement. I did (and do) find it very very frustrating that I have taken a significant amount of time and trouble to add to this resource, about an event (which although relatively small, is most definitely important to the 9000 people who attend it!) and only to have it totally shot down by people who have not taken the time to consider or understand it. What is more, the same person who originally flagged it went through on teh same day and flagged ALL RELATED articles also for deletion! Many of these are articles that I myself certainly regularly use, and as such I am certain many many others do too! I think this editor has an agenda, and I dont like that! Thanks again, though, for your encouragment. I will try to add to it/ modify it as per the rules of the project! KnightStrider 13:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
