Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Writing Short Stories

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 delete. Mkativerata (talk) 18:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Per WP:NOT. As the title suggests, this article is a set of instructions for writing short stories. RadManCF ☢ open frequency 16:02, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete – Wikipedia is not a "guide". Delete the article. Novice7 | Talk 16:29, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Agree with nom. Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. Jenks24 (talk) 16:31, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, I'm not taking writing advice from someone who says "you understands". Hairhorn (talk) 16:52, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, this article has helped me a lot!!! Varmengolem — Preceding unsigned comment added by Varmengolem (talk • contribs) 16:59, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Can you help me make this article better?User:Kesha495 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kesha495 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. If you go back to the site Writing Short Stories, it will be different.Kesha495 talk)

Only vote once, please. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:12, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Wikipedia is not a "how to" guide. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:45, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTHOWTO. Deor (talk) 23:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTHOWTO. Regent of the Seatopians (talk) 00:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per nom. - ManicSpider (talk) 10:10, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTHOWTO, and comment - if Kesha495 is writing this for a school assignment, they should explain to the teacher why the article was deleted and perhaps consider working on another short story article. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 13:19, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:02, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - per all WP:HOWTO voters. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This isn't eHow and per WP:NOTHOWTO Baseball Watcher ^{Lets Chat} 22:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Close - The page creator was blocked and then "retired" after two days with Wikipedia.[1] "Make a web of ideas with five big things that are going to happen in your story." and "But I learned how, and now I write level 4 short stories for school." are from ideas-for-short-stories-for-school.html, an odd subpage for the mutual fund management company Eurobank. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:05, 23 January 2011 (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.