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September 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Calvin Mbarga has been reverted.
Your edit here to Calvin Mbarga was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlR-m3xvmA) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 01:13, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sandbox/deaf history

A tag has been placed on Sandbox/deaf history, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^{Talk Email} 12:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Deaf History (nomination)

Welcome to Wikipedia. I see you've only been contributing for about two months, so you've done well so far.

Sorry - the article you've nominated doesn't meet criteria of being increased five times in size in the 5 days before nomination (even extending that to 7 days only gives a four-fold increase from 1041 readable bytes to 3949 readable bytes). You need to add another 1256 readable bytes to even get a chance of being considered for DYK, even then you'd have to rely on a bit of rule-bending on the 5 days. There are links to the page size tool at the DYK pages.

The hook was already on Wikipedia at Juliette Gordon Low. This isn't an explicit problem for DYK, but flags up that your article may be short of new encyclopedic information. It may be more interesting to talk about how the listed deaf people have affected Deaf History, rather than merely listing them.

I haven't checked references given other issues, but I hope that you can make the article larger so that it can be reviewed. Folks are generally more likely to (but may still not) bend the 5-day rule for someone not fully aware of it. I got caught out that way by slowly building an article rather than keeping it offline and uploading it. Wikiwayman (talk) 10:58, 29 November 2011 (UTC)