- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was Speedy delete. WoohookittyWoohoo! 09:22, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Topic is non-notable, unpublished story; see article talk page Dominus 18:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Here's my summary from the talk page:
- There are no Google hits for "Oliva's eye", for the name of the story "A story of a black rainbow", or for the author's name "Taft O. Miller" or "Taft Miller". There are no Wikipedia articles that link to this one.
- The article claims that the story was "published in January, 2007", but it doesn't say where it was published.
- I suggest that the subject is entirely non-notable.
Today, an anonymous user removed the PROD warning from the article, adding the following message to the talk page:
- This is a real short story, although not sold in any bookstores, it has been written. Please do not delete it, I have made them remove any silly comments from their homepage. Although the short story is real, it is not on google because it wasn't submitted to google partly because I do not have a homepage.
- Taft O. Miller
I believe that this supports my suggestion that the article is about a non-notable, unpublished work. -- Dominus 18:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
On google I founded that there a short story called a story of a black rainbow but was not written by Taft Miller or had to do anything with oliva's eye.
- Speedy Delete per comments about the story which state that it is "not sold in any bookstores" or on a website. Fits criteria G11 (Blatant Advertisement), A7 (unremarkable), possibly A1 (lack of context). Cheers, Lankybugger ○ speak ○ see ○ 19:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Cheery Sidenote I'm not sure to what extent Admins might find this relevant, but most of the significant contributors to this article have a history of blatant vandalism. Just an FYI. Cheers, Lankybugger ○ speak ○ see ○ 19:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete per the above and per the talkpage: "real short story, although not sold in any bookstores, , it has been written. That just about says it all IMHO. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Responce
editAlright, let's settle this.
This is NOT a major book, it is a short story written in a short amount of time. It was not made to be published by any bookstore, it didn't win any prizes. It was just a book about a VERY disturbing thing that happened between two of my friends, so I wrote a story about it. I just thought I would make a Wikipedia page about it, my friend choose the page name
About the google thing.
Not everyone is on google! I already told you this book isn't published! Please get off the google thing!
If you want to delete it, thats fine. Even though it would be nice to leave it, I know wikipedia doesn't love average people, it only likes celebrities and famous people, because no matter how little people look at the page, it has to be deleted to save the 1 KB of space of wikipedia's precious space, even though the page IS a encyclopedia entry, it isn't important enough.
So whats the point of creating new pages if they are always deleted?
TaftOMiller 23:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- New pages aren't always deleted. If they were, English Wikipedia wouldn't have over a million articles. The concern is that items must meet notability standards as outlined in This notability policy and must have enough information that it can be verified as outlined in this verification policy. If something doesn't meet those base requirements, it's not considered notable enough to be included on Wikipedia.
- If you want to host the story (or information about the story somewhere), try any of the hundreds of free webspaces out there. There's even free wiki-hosting sites if you'd like to allow your friends to edit the article as well. Wikipedia, however, is not for things made in school one day. Cheers, Lankybugger ○ speak ○ see ○ 23:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete as advertising for an unpublished, non-notable story, and as a second choice delete per WP:FICT as "Oliva's eye" is not the name of the story, but part of the body of one of the characters within the story. --Metropolitan90 05:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What I know
editThe story A Story of a Black Rainbow sound's a lot like the story A tale of a Gray Rainbow I dont know if it was puplished or not but it was told by Paul Miller who traveled to a few schools in North Carolina telling the story to 1st and 2nd graders. There was no such thing as Oliva's eye however there was jane's eye which was used to discripe something of great beurity.
ps. Sorry for the spelling I guess I should of stayed awake in 1-3 grade.
- Speedy Delete - admittedly not a notable short story, and has no sources. --Haemo 01:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If this is about the fake story above, my friend already addmitted to making this story up. TaftOMiller 01:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What?
editOkay..... who wrote this? I can accept that there is possibly a book titled something similar to my title, but PUAL Miller? JANE'S EYE? Who wrote this? "The People of GEORGE"? Come off it man, your just makin' stuff up know and I don't like it at all, and to anyone who actually TRUSTS this guy. Your totally insane.
By the way JUAN or DUSTIN (yes I know it's one of you guy's) you would not know that I live in North Carolina.
Come on man.
AND DON'T EVEN SAY THAT YOUR REALY SOMEONE ELSE OR THAT YOUR STORY IS REAL!!! JUST FESS UP!!!!! —The preceding
TaftOMiller 00:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC) [reply]
- SPEEDY DELETE This needs to be closed ASAP.--Ng.j 08:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.