User talk:Wendireedcollection

Speedy deletion nomination of Wendi Reed

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A tag has been placed on Wendi Reed, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Wendi Reed and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. De728631 (talk) 21:34, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the speedy deletion tag, since a line carried in so many well-known stores is likely to have had significant coverage in independent and reliable sources, which is needed to satisfy Wikipedia's notability guideline. I found 3 references and added them, from MSN, the New York Times, and W. More articles from newspapers, magazines, or the trade press would improve the article and lessen the chance of its deletion. They could be listed on the article's talk page, if you have any in a clip file and are not familiar with Wikipedia inline referencing. A reference to the designer's blog could fill in some details, but would not establish notability, since it clearly would not be independent. An article must be factual, verifiable and neutral in tone, and may not read like an advertisement, nor may it include material copied and pasted from elsewhere on the web. You said the collection was covered in "Gap Press." What issue what page, who is the writer, what is the article title, and most important, what did they say? That is a $32 magazine not available online, but print sources are fine. A bio article should say something about the peron, with a reference. Born where and when, school? Edison (talk) 22:20, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]