Edharris20
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Good work on Boulder City High School! As I said at the Helpdesk, I've moved the content you created in your sandbox to Boulder City High School, with some cleanup. You'll notice there are no images; your contributions indicate you haven't actually uploaded any. See the Introduction to uploading images for help with doing so, although I will also point out that The number of pictures you tried to include looks like way too many; an article that size would usually have no more than three or four good images, total. Mysterious Whisper 01:09, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Ah. You didn't upload any images to Wikipedia, but you uploaded quite a few to Wikimedia Commons, and can review them all here. Mysterious Whisper 01:56, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
And... It looks like all of the pictures you uploaded have been deleted from Commons because of Copyright violations. Wikimedia Commons only accepts images that are explicitly freely licensed, or that are in the public domain in at least the United States and in the source country of the work. See Commons:Licensing. Mysterious Whisper 12:12, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
However, I was able to re-upload the logo, and only the logo, under our fair-use rationale. Mysterious Whisper 13:12, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
August 2013
editYou've been adding a lot of external links to the Alumni sections of Boulder City High School. Outside of references or the external links section, it is almost never appropriate to link to an external website (see WP:EL). As such, I've been removing them or converting them to references. Also, you seem to be having some trouble with internal links to other Wikipedia pages. To link to another Wikipedia article, simply enclose the words that make up the title of the target page with double square brackets (like [[this]]). See here for more on linking. Mysterious Whisper 22:58, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. ʍw 10:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Recent edits to Boulder City High School
edit Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your recent edit to Boulder City High School appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity. In general, a person or organization added to a list should have a pre-existing article to establish notability. If you wish to create such an article, please confirm that your subject is notable according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you! Mark Arsten (talk) 02:10, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Mark Arsten, I tried to add a notable alumni that graduated from the school. She has been published in the New York Times and many other publications. Eva Hunter is an award winning author that recently published a book specific to Boulder City, it's history, the town, the school, etc. (available at Amazon.com) and I am amazed that YOU don't think that she stands up to your criteria for notability. Really? What would it take? I am not like you sir! I do not want to waste my time on Wikipedia. I was only trying to do a service for my former high school. Yet every picture I collected was rejected, and almost everything written has been questioned. If you think you can do better, then do it. Because I am done! --Edharris20 (talk) 23:55, 14 October 2013 (UTC)Ed Harris