User talk:Smithryanallen

Speedy deletion nomination of Slowjamastan

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A tag has been placed on Slowjamastan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, a group of people, an individual animal, an organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content, or an organized event that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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I have contested the speedy deletion. The page is about a micronation that is equally as notable as many others covered on Wikipedia. Sources include verifiable 3rd party independent news outlets. Smithryanallen (talk) 20:52, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Editing with a conflict of interest

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Specifically with reference to R Dub! and subsequently Slowjamastan.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 23:51, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Ponyo, thanks for the comment. I have read these policies and don't believe they apply, so I'm confused as to why policies seem to be applied unevenly as to what publishes/what doesn't.

I am not getting paid, this isn't a company I work for, etc. I have no financial interest and am not linking to anything I have a financial interest in / nothing I have created. This is local news in my area from a radio station I listen to and a micronation near where I live. It's in the news. Anyone can google it and find a bunch of sources on the micronation declaring independence here. I've read through the policies and still believe the articles merit newsworthiness/publication. Other micronations are published on wikipedia with far less news coverage, so I am confused on the policies of what publishes/what doesn't. ABC news just did a piece , other sources are from Yahoo news and newspapers. I think these meet the newsworthiness requirements and provide a higher threshold than other micronations have in some of their articles. Could you please clarify on the path forward?

Thanks, smithryanallen

References

(Clarify: Willondon responding)

Commenting on COI and notability: a conflict of interest doesn't have to be financial. This micronation seems to be being treated as a joke. So an editor with an interest in spreading the joke could have a conflict. Considering notability, I don't consider COI much; it's either notable or it isn't. To criticize the references offered:

• The first cites "Bartell's Backroads", which could be considered opinion/blog reporting, not news.
• The Yahoo! Now reference points to the Desert Sun article, so not sure how much notability it confers. I'm not familiar with Yahoo! news, but it seems like it could be populated by automated web scraping, rather than editorial oversight as to what is notable.
• The Desert Sun coverage could be considered very local.

So why do other micronations get included? I didn't look at all of them. I'm vaguely aware of a "sovereign citizen" political movement in the U.S., an historical figure Gregor MacGregor, and coverage of "That Time Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Started His Own Country". Whimsical efforts to start a new sovereign country are often covered by local outlets. To qualify for inclusion in Wikipedia, I guess it would require something notable by a wider audience or a wider view of history. _signed, Willondon (talk) 01:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

I appreciate the reply, yet I remain confused as to where the bar is being set here...?

On list_of_micronations, I count half a dozen that are described as "tongue in cheek", so I'm not sure that I understand the distinction happening here for publishing/not publishing. Aside from those descriptions, Zaqistan remains published, when it's run by one person on some land he owns. In fact, when I created the article for Slowjamastan, I simply used the format from Zaqistan, since it seemed the most similar from the list of micronations (land owned by 1 person, claimed independence as a micronation inside US territory, has issued passports and citizenship, etc.). If the others meet the standards for publishing/not being deleted, I guess I don't see the difference. I'm genuinely confused as to how the standards apply, since this looks basically the same to me. Not trying to be difficult, but I'm genuinely confused as to what the standard is. If this can be clarified, I'm glad to amend to meet the standard. Thanks for your help. Smithryanallen (talk) 02:31, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Preface: there is no standard or bar with Wikipedia. What you see is more of a crowd-sourced swarm of bees loosely defining what should qualify for inclusion. And of course Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was tongue-in-cheek and a joke, but of the sort that was documented as notable. I looked at the Zaqistan article to see if there were some insightful differences to note. I didn't access all the references, but:

• Zaqistan was sourced to coverage from People and Vice magazines, a broader coverage area.

In the Further reading (based partly on my scanning of the article titles):

• New York Daily News reports on it as an artistic product that has lasted a decade.
• Ventures Africa reports on it (in "There's more to micronations than lunacy"), along with an in-depth commentary on the phenomenon of micronations "commonly attributed to eccentricity [...] and are usually not taken seriously, except in rare cases", including it in some notable criteria.
• The Western Front from Western Washington University writes in "Brenna's Take on the News: Zaqistan and Marco Rubio", presumably placing it in a political context.

Again, wider coverage geographically and in context of other notable topics of discussion. There's really no solid bar that you can surmount, but hopefully that clarifies the vague cloud of gate-keeper bees that you'll need to negotiate to get Slowjamistan into the annals. _signed, Willondon (talk) 04:19, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:R Dub!

Hello, Smithryanallen. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "R Dub!".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:42, 23 March 2022 (UTC)