Bahamian Culture

Hello, I am excited to join the Wikipedia family and to share more about the wonderful culture and cultural figures of The Bahamas.

I've written my first article "K.B. (Kirkland Bodie)" and it has been flagged.

I tried to keep it as simple as possible and included as many references as were available.

Please offer any suggestions or rewrites for an improved format.

With thanks,

Bahamian Culture Bahamian Culture (talk) 06:30, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

It was deleted because of blatant advertising and the talk page, where you also listed a "help" question was deleted. Wikipedia is not a webhost for advertising. SwisterTwister talk 07:30, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello SwisterTwister, thanks for your review and quick response. I have revised and reposted the article in my userspace at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bahamian_Culture/K.B._(Kirkland_Bodie). FYI, most of my sources are official Bahamas news media sources. I have also referenced a book, official government and academic website sources. Please review my redraft and feel free to make any further suggestions.

Bahamian Culture (talk) 01:27, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!

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Speedy deletion nomination of K.B. (Kirkland Bodie)

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A tag has been placed on K.B. (Kirkland Bodie), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Help me!

Hello Wikipedians, I have created my first article for K.B. (Kirkland Bodie), a Bahamian entertainer, which was marked as having promotional language and taken down. I have since revised the article and it is on my user subpage. I have tried to make the language as straight forward as possible and have included references for virtually everything written. My sources are from official Bahamas news media and I have also referenced a book, official government and academic website sources. I looked at quite a number of other musician and artist bios on Wikipedia and compared them to what I wrote, before posting, the first time. I don't find my article any more promotional than some of what I've seen. Please review my revised draft at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bahamian_Culture/K.B._(Kirkland_Bodie) and feel free to offer any further revision or formatting advice. With thanks, Bahamian Culture (talk) 00:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

If you are ready to have your draft reviewed, please place {{subst:submit}} at the top of the page and save it. Primefac (talk) 01:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your response Primefac. Bahamian Culture (talk) 19:08, 8 December 2016 (UTC)