To play Devil's Advocate, though, here's the initial version that was tagged for speedy deletion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Mollo&oldid=184320631
And here's the version from 20 minutes later when you'd finished your initial creation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Mollo&oldid=184324785
At the moment, a 20 minute old article would almost have fallen off the bottom of the 100 Newest Pages list. Which means it's virtually impossible to conduct a new pages patrol AND give every article 20 minutes grace to see if it turns out to grow beyond a one-liner with no assertion of notability.
I try to make life easier for the new page patrollers by sticking to Preview rather than Save, until I'm happy the article is in a shape to go live. Or working on it in userspace and then moving it live, if I expect my work to be spread over a couple of sessions.
Cheers, David...
On Jan 15, 2008 8:01 AM, Ian A Holton poeloq@gmail.com wrote:
The guy has worked on so many movies and authored several books, notability should really be no issue here. Need to work on verifiable sources though.