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 keep - nominator changed mind and withdrew nomination. Non-admin closure. ~Matticus ^T_C 20:10, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Astrosaurs[edit]

This Article includes no information about the books. This is why i have nominated it for deletion. If information about some of the books can be displayed, The notice will be removed. (Woggy 08:51, 21 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Speedy keep. The article contains plenty of information about the book series. Nominator has a history of putting articles up for deletion for lacking content (though in this case the article isn't even that short or lacking in content). Woggy, you would be helping more if you expanded the articles yourself, rather than trying to use AfD to catalyse other people into doing it for you. ~Matticus ^T_C 12:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This book series is clearly notable in nature. It is also possible to verify the contents of this book. A google search shows up quite a few reliable hits for this subject. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 12:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep dumb but very notable. Nomination reasoning makes no sense. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep per above. Article needs improvement, not deletion. Book series is easily notable. Reasoning for nomination makes no sense. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 12:51, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep! per above, and WP:SNOW at this point. Charlie-talk to me-what I've done 15:20, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't one of you help me improve it! I want some people to join in the discussion at the Astrosaurs article about ideas about improving it. With the help of other users, We can make this article great! I just wish people would join me. By the way Matticus 78 there is plenty information about the book series. But thats not what i meant. I meant that we, (Not me on my own) Should include the plot for all of the books except the ones that have not been released. Thats all i just hate it when people can't help or tell me their ideas. (Woggy 18:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I just want some help. I want peoples suggestions about ideas for improving the article! I posted 2 messages for the discussion and they never got answered! If we all work together and discuss improvements this Article will be a masterpiece. Come on everyone we need to work together and discuss improvements! Isn't there anyone who is willing to do this? (Woggy 18:49, 21 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I am pretty sure i removed the notice. Because i thought i was wrong for nominating it. Who removed it? (Woggy 19:30, 21 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I also created this article under a different user Name but i had to change it to Woggy because i forgot my password. (Woggy 19:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Well, the article is a relatively low-traffic one in an area of fairly limited interest, and therefore edits will be quite infrequent and the talk pages rarely read, so your comments may not be replied to or acted upon for many weeks, if at all. AfD is not a good place to go touting for help, first because nominating for deletion is not the best way to improve an article, and second because the people who regularly read and comment on AfD discussions will not necessarily be particularly knowledgeable about or interested in the subject area of the article in question (we tend to apply our knowledge of Wikipedia policies, and our skills at researching a possibly unfamiliar topic, to form our opinions).

Fortunately, the Wikipedia community has identified the problem of articles that need attention but are not often visited/edited and get overlooked. To help solve it we have "WikiProjects", a sort of central collaborative workspace where editors can find out about articles in a particular subject area that might need attention, discuss improvements, coordinate activities, rate the quality and importance of articles, and so on. In the case of Astrosaurs, the most appropriate place would be the Children's Literature WikiProject. If you visit the project page, you will find a list of editors who tend to concentrate on editing articles about children's books and related topics. Might I suggest you send a message requesting help to one or two of the active editors on the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature? I am sure someone will be happy to lend a hand (but be patient - someone has to read your message first, and not everyone visits Wikipedia to edit every day). Since you said you have changed your mind about nominating this article for deletion, I will close the discussion and remove the notice on the article itself. If you need any more guidance, you are welcome to leave me a message, but I doubt I will be able to do much to help with the article itself because I don't know all that much about children's literature. Though for the record, your suggestion to add a short plot summary for each book in the series is exactly the kind of thing that would improve the article - if you've only read a couple of the books, then just do it for the ones you know, and it need only be a few short sentences. Good luck! ~Matticus ^T_C 20:07, 21 July 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.