Pbone
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Hello, Pbone, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Thanks for the welcome message. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at the page I have been working on and telling me how I am doing, I would appreciate it - the page is Bidding fee scheme. Also, is it proper to leave these messages at the bottom of the talk page, or is descending prefered?
- To answer your last question first, the usual etiquette is to add new comments at the bottom, as you did. As for Bidding fee scheme, I'm actually very impressed. For a first article it's remarkably well done, and covers a lot of the things many new people miss. (Many people don't know to add categories, sections, interwiki links, etc.) Since you asked for a critique, I'm going to make a few comments, but please don't get the wrong idea - overall the article is excellent.
- There are a few places in wikipedia where a term is ambiguous, and a link to it goes to a disambiguation page. Grey area is one of these. Generally you should try to avoid linking to the disambig page, and try to link directly to the page you want. (If at all possible).
- As someone who had never heard this term before, I didn't realize that the bidding fee was non-refundable until the end of the example. You might want to state it a little more explicitly earlier on.
- Wikipedia has a very strong Neutral point of view policy. I don't know if calling a bidding fee scheme akin to bidding is POV or accepted as fact (I'm completely alien to this field), but if it's POV then you should probably try to rephrase or delete the sentence (for example: "they are considered by some to be a form of gambling").
- As I said, great article. If you want to see any changes other people make to it, you can add the page to your Watchlist. Also, another thing you may want to consider when you're done is to find other places in wikipedia where there should be links to bidding fee scheme and adding them.
- Keep up the good work - I'm certainly glad you've decided to join wikipedia. --אריאל יהודה
First of all, I apologize for being so tardy with this reply. I got caught up in some other things and just kinda forgot. Anyway, there is an official Wikipedia:Merge which covers how to do things, but in this case we can probably just take the short route since Bidding fee scheme is entirely your page and almost nothing links to it. Combine all your info into Unique bid auction (you have a lot more info than the other article, so cut and paste the good stuff in there). Once you're done making one good article, delete the other one and replace it with a redirect. If you need help with any of this, just ask. --אריאל יהודה 03:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Bidding fee scheme
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Speedy deletion of Bidding fee scheme
edit Please do not make personal attacks. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.
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Speedy deletion of Bidding fee scheme
edit A tag has been placed on Bidding fee scheme, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
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