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A tag has been placed on United Service Organization (USO) of North Carolina requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.
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I resubmitted the article with an emphasis on why it is significant.Jsrawlinson (talk) 13:08, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
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Preview
editHi! I responded to your post at the help desk. I've been following your edits to United Service Organization of North Carolina since then, and wanted to suggest that you use the "show preview" feature before "save page". I can see what you're trying to do with the "External links" section, but the way the official site is linked to isn't usual - the normal way to link to sites if [http://www.example.com Example.com]
. There are a few "helper templates" for things like official websites, Twitter and YouTube, but these are quite unusual. Using "show preview" will show you how the page will look once you've saved it, and it's a useful way of picking up things like this before publishing your changes. TFOWR 14:37, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
File source problem with File:USO-NC Mobile Unit.JPG
editThank you for uploading File:USO-NC Mobile Unit.JPG. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.
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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:USO-NC Mobile Unit1.JPG
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