User talk:Go0dspeed
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This article has been deleted according to policy outlined in Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. In Talk:Steve Murrell you cited some references, but those do not qualify as reliable sources. Please try to find some third-party coverage (newspaper, magazine, etc) instead of referring to the subject's own web pages. Please also note that once an article is created, it needs to be able to stand up to scrutiny. You are free to create subpages in your user space (for example, at User:Go0dspeed/Steve Murrell and move them to the main article space when ready. Regards, howcheng {chat} 17:16, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
- "Reliable sources" doesn't necessarily mean web sources. For example, it's fine to cite authoritative books (other encyclopedias, for example), or newspapers and magazines that don't have online versions (or where the archives are only available for purchase). The point is it has to be a secondary source that you cite. Steve Murrell's own web page does not qualify because we don't know if he's making things up; a reliable source presumably will have been fact-checked and we should be able to trust that it's true. For biographies of living people, please see WP:LIVING for some guidelines. Hope that helps. Happy editing. howcheng {chat} 18:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)