Queenofluckbp91
May 2010
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Speedy deletion nomination of Ornella
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A tag has been placed on Ornella requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of 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. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
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Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles you created, as you did with Ornella. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following:
Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. - SDPatrolBot (talk) 15:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Talkback
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Message added 22:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
The article Writing Stories has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- WP:HOWTO, WP:OR
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 10:21, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Articles for deletion nomination of Writing Stories
edit I have nominated Writing Stories, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Writing Stories. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 11:04, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
I've copied your question from Talk:Writing Stories here, for your convenience. I'm also copying my reply. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 19:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
- Why is this article being deleted? There's nothing wrong with it! If you know how it should be done, then do it!!Queenofluckbp91 (talk) 17:47, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
- You'll want to look at the Deletion Debate, found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Writing Stories. In most cases (including my own), editors have said that this article doesn't fit Wikipedia, because it is an article that tells someone how to do something. The relevant policy is WP:NOTHOW, which speaks to why how-to articles are not permitted. If the article were just about the process or act of writing stories (as opposed to a how-to), then we already cover the subject at both Creative writing and Fiction writing - so it doesn't help to have a third article duplicating content from the other two. IF you still would like to write instructions for someone to write stories, you may wish to contribute at wikihow - where they already have several articles such as How to Write a Short Story, for example. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 19:03, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Edith, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 11:07, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Welcome aboard!
editHi and thanks for taking an interest in Wikipedia. I wanted to talk to you about the article you created, Writing Stories, which is currently nominated for deletion. The problem the user who nominated it for deletion has with it is that it appears to violate a few of our policies, which they unfortunately did not elaborate on in a manner that a new user like yourself could be expected to understand. WP:OR refers to our policy on original research, which is the addition of your own thoughts or observations to Wikipedia. I had a hard time with this concept myself when I first started out here, and a more experienced user explained it to me like this: Our own observations, be they right or wrong, simply do not count for anything on Wikipedia. All of our articles must be verified by reliable sources. If we can't locate those sources, the information can't be posted to Wikipedia. The other issue, WP:HOWTO, refers to a subsection of the policy on what Wikipedia is not. Specifically, it is not a how-to guide or instruction manual. There is another website called wikiHow that does welcome this kind of content. There are a lot of policies, guidelines and so forth here, and it can be a little overwhelming sometimes to a new user, so I hope this experience does not discourage you from wanting to continue to contribute here. Click here to see the five core policies on which all the other rules are based. If you keep those in mind the rest will follow in time. I'm also going to leave you the standard welcome message as it contains many other helpful links.
- Welcome!
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Not to be rude or anything, but which policies are you talking about? You must admit that if I know, I will earn and will not do that again.
Yours sincerely
Queenofluckbp91 (talk) 15:20, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
- I believe I explained which policies I was talking about in my previous posting. Any blue word you see on Wikipedia is a link to another page, so if you re-read the previous message you can click on the relevant blue words to see the full policies. Beeblebrox (talk) 15:25, 6 May 2010 (UTC)