Pvara 99

50+

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article 50+, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Whpq 14:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC) Pvara 99 17:19, 22 August 2007 (UTC)I have more information to add the 50+/50plus material along with cited material to backup it up.

Promotional links

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page AARP do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --CliffC 23:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Senior Prison

A tag has been placed on Senior prison, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
Sabergirl08 18:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Gay and Lesbian Seniors

A tag has been placed on Gay and Lesbian Seniors, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
Sabergirl08 18:32, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

August 2007

Dear Pvara 99, welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your recent contributions. However, the pages you're creating do not comply with many of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Please review the following: Cite your sources, Manual of style, Layout guide, First article, Article development and How to edit for assistance. Many of the articles you've created recently are either nominated for speedy deletion, or have serious concerns relating to neutrality, things Wikipedia is not or other areas.

I would encourage you to use a page such as User:Pvara 99/sandbox to create articles, learn the proper formatting, and citation policies, and then submit them to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for input on whether they satisfy the requirements for articles. There are also concerns that there may be copyright issues, as many of the articles read like editorials or magazine articles. Please review Wikipedia's copyright policy prior to adding material. Copying and pasting from another site is not allowed. If you wish to include the material you read there, you'll need to summarize, paraphrase, condense, and then format them properly. ^Ariel♥Gold 18:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Senior alcoholism

A tag has been placed on Senior alcholism, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
Sabergirl08 18:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Your recent additions

I have watched you recent pattern of new articles, and they all appear to have been copied and pasted from articles published elsewhere. These actions constitute copyright violation, and even if you had authorization to post them here they still do not fit in as encyclopedic articles. Please bear this in mind. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 18:37, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Senior Cosmetic surgery

A tag has been placed on Senior Cosmetic surgery, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. ^Ariel♥Gold 18:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Please stop creating articles for the purpose of promoting a product, cause, or company. You've been previously warned regarding adding unacceptable links to the AARP article, and now it seems you've simply decided to create pages that are from the page you were linking to. If you continue, you risk being blocked from editing. Please review the links provided to you above, regarding policies and guidelines for Wikipedia. Thank you ^Ariel♥Gold 18:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Spam in Senior eyes

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Senior eyes, by Silver seren (talk · contribs), another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Senior eyes is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Senior eyes, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. --Android Mouse Bot 2 19:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Your posting at Wikipedia:Drawing board

I have removed your posting because it seemed promotional rather than how an encyclopedia article should read, and (mostly) because it's apparent from this talk page that you have repeatedly posted information to Wikipedia that other editors have found objectionable.

Given that history, I suggest that any articles that you propose for Wikipedia should be put on a subpage, and that before you start drafting any article, you review Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Your first article to make sure that you're not wasting your time. Then, once you have a draft, please review our conflict of interest rules as to why you should not be the one to actually create the article (as an article, not a draft on a subpage in your user space). Once you've done all that, please feel free to post again at the Drawing board, and other editors will be happy to review your draft and (if acceptable) to create the actual article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I have again removed a posting of yours at Wikipedia:Drawing board. May I suggest that you actually read my first note to you, and that if you have questions about following it, that you ask? You appear not to have created a subpage to write a draft, you appear not to have read the two suggested policies, and you appear not to have gotten the point that your credibility here at Wikipedia is so low (due to apparent conflict of interest, lack of understanding of the rules, and repeated violations) that you need to do a really good draft in order to have any chance of posting an article that remains in place for at least 24 hours.

Regarding your last posting, you appear to be writing an article about the demographics of the 50+ population in the U.S. If so, you need to read Household income in the United States, Personal income in the United States, and Affluence in the United States and decide whether what you are want to write is better suited as additions to those articles than as a new article.

Finally, you still don't seem to get the importance of citations for new articles. An article without citations looks, to most people, like original research (original writing), which is prohibited at Wikipedia. If you really want to write something without citations, please go to wikia.com (for example, to the economics wiki at wikia.com. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Step 1: Read WP:NOR and understand the difference between a personal essay (not allowed here) and an encyclopedia article (which is based primarily on published information, with little or no interpretation).

Step 2: Read Household income in the United States, Personal income in the United States, and Affluence in the United States, and decide if the articles already include, or could include, what you want in Wikipedia. If so, add information to those articles, keeping in mind that the information must come from a reliable source.

Step 3: If you decide an article is still needed, read Wikipedia:Your first article to see if what you think you want to do is consistent with Wikipedia's rules, and to see what you need to do to make a good article.

Step 4: Create a subpage. (I'm not going to create one for you because I'm not at all sure what the topic of the article is that you seem to want to write - 50/50+ is NOT a good article. "Demographics of those over age 50 in the United States", or "Characteristics of those in the U.S. over age 50", is presumably closer to what you have in mind, but you may notice that there aren't many other articles here with such convoluted titles.) If you can't figure out how to create a subpage (in your user space), ask at the help desk.

Step 5: Write a draft of the article, making sure that it is based primarily on sources that you cite, and that you have a number of sources (the more the better, at least up to a dozen or so). If you're writing the article solely from one or two sources, it's simply not acceptable - we can just point readers to that source (or pair of sources). Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, adds value by taking multiple sources and providing, in essence, an organized summary.

Step 6: If you in any way have a WP:COI conflict of interest (for example, you cite, in your article, a website in which you have some business interest), you need to read that policy and disclose your conflict at User:Pvara.

Step 7: Post a brief note to the Drawing board page, and/or notes to the talk pages of related articles (see step 2, above), inviting other editors to review and edit your draft, and to comment on whether they think it's worth being a separate article in Wikipedia.

Step 8: Assuming positive feedback from other editors, move the article to what we call "mainspace" - where other articles are located. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Adopt Me

Pvara 99, I would be more than happy to adopt you, just tell me when you can start and we can go over the basics together. Thanx! Limetolime 21:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Pvara 99, I am afraid that I cannot work with you over your available hours. I have school, and I can only do it on the weekends. thanx! Limetolime 14:25, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Adopt

If you are truly interested in the program and being mentored, I would be glad to adopt you. I add the disclaimer because the other users I have adopted either left after a few days of editing or never responded to messages. Lara❤Love 18:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I live on the east coast, but I'm on at all hours. So our time should overlap frequently. To start, what are you interested in most? Writing articles, expanding existing articles, making little improvements to articles (spelling errors, typos, etc.), reverting vandalism? That's most important to know, and I'll guide you from there. Also, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Lara❤Love 15:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the background. I have only a few moments now before I must go to work, but I will be on tomorrow for us to get lots of communication in. You are the first adoptee I've had that seems truly interested in contributing and participating in this mentoring program. For that reason, I've decided the most effective way to go about this is for me to created a page dedicated to mentoring you. I will create it tonight.

As far as your articles and getting them on the mainspace, the best way I think to go about it is to first put it on a subpage of your userpage. I'll create a couple subpages for you to work with. A drafts page for you to work on your articles and get feedback from others. I'm heavily involved in the Good articles project and I'm also a copy-editor, so I'll be able to offer a lot of feedback for you. Look over WP:MOS, WP:V and other guidelines and policies that link to them. Don't overwhelm yourself, though. Start small, I'll help you along the way. It seems like a lot at first, but it's not that bad.

When you get messages, you get that orange bar at the top of whatever page you're on, but there's no email feature. I have Yahoo messenger that also connects to MSN messenger (Windows Live), so if you have either of those, we can chat via messenger. Alternatively, Wikipedia has an IRC channel. We'll figure all that out later.

I hope I haven't forgotten anything. We'll dive in tomorrow. Oh yea, sandboxes. I'll also create you a sandbox page. Just go there to play with the features and make test edits and such. Lara❤Love 20:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

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Dearest Pvara,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 137 supports, 22 opposes, and 5 neutrals. Your kind words of support are very much appreciated and I look forward to proving you right. I would like to give special thanks to The_undertow and Phoenix-wiki for their co-nominations. Thank you again and best regards.

Lara❤Love 19:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC) Credits: This RFA thanks was inspired by The Random Editor's RFA thanks which was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks.