ID15SD44

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Hello, ID15SD44, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as History of Online Poker, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Your contributed article, History of Online Poker

Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, History of Online Poker. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Wikipedia:Summary style. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Wikipedia:Summary style - you might like to discuss new information at [[Talk:Wikipedia:Summary style|the article's talk page]].

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, 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. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. RadioFan (talk) 18:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

May 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from History of Online Poker, a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a {{hangon}} tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Immunize (talk) 19:59, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in this edit to History of Online Poker. Inappropriate links include links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that serve as advertising or promotion. Thank you. Uncle Dick (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of History of Online Poker

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, 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. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:31, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Caught your question at the Help Desk

Hey, I noticed your question at the help desk. I thought I'd try to explain a bit more what's going wrong, and how you can fix it.

• The article you have created, the History of Online Poker, has been deleted as it largely duplicates an article that already exists. In this case, Online poker already covers most of the information adequately, and in Wikipedia, there's little need for two articles that cover the same material. If you have something to add to the topic, it may be more appropriate to add it there (for example, under a "History" section). If needed, you could split the larger article (see Wikipedia:Summary style), which may be appropriate, rather than starting a new, mostly duplicate article.
• Material written in the article space must be fully appropriate from the moment it is created. Wikipedia has other namespaces (see WP:NAMESPACE), for example, this is the User talk: namespace, used for conversing between Wikipedia users. You also have a User: namespace, where you can create a userpage, AND where you can create user subpages for the purpose of working on draft articles. See WP:SUBPAGE and WP:USERPAGE and especially Help:Userspace draft which will walk you through the basics. Also, if you use the Wikipedia:Article wizard to create your article, it gives you the option of creating a draft. Please do so if you want to create a new article. Creating a userspace draft gives you time to work on your article, as much more leeway is given to userspace drafts than is to "live" articles. Once the article is approrpiate, it can be moved to the article space.

I hope these tips help. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me at my user talk page. I will be glad to help you out whereever you need. --Jayron32 21:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I notice that you created Computer Viruses after receiving the above advice, and that the article (a) contained no content and (b) covered a topic that is already extensively covered on Wikipedia. Clearly, you are trying to learn the Wikipedia environment, and I applaud that. However, it is not appropriate to make test edits in the main article space. Your article should have been created in your own user space (at User:ID15SD44/Computer Viruses), where you would be free to work on it to your heart's desire (assuming it doesn't violate guidelines against such this as copyrights and attack pages). I hope this clears things up a bit.

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Wikipedia is not for free hosting of whatever content people want. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Your pages are being deleted because they are not appropriate content for an encyclopedia. If you want to edit here, that's great, but you need to learn more about what we do here first. If you're trying to use Wikipedia for some purpose for which is it not intended, you need to find a different tool to use. Friday (talk) 16:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)