USA1168

Welcome!

Hello, USA1168, 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 Shane McColgan, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles. See the Article Wizard. Thank you.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

• Your first article
• Biographies of living persons
• How to write a great article
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Help pages
• Tutorial

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 21:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Notifying users

Hello! Last week you nominated the (now deleted) article Andreas Dahlström for deletion. However, you never informed me, so I wasn't aware of the deletion nomination. In the future, when nominating something for deletion, please always notify the author and the substantial contributors of the article. Thank you. HeyMid (contribs) 15:02, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Anton Blomqvist

The article Anton Blomqvist has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Junior/Minor league hockey player who has not yet established himself to meet notability requirements per WP:NHOCKEY. Wikipedia is not a Crystal Ball

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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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. Dolovis (talk) 00:41, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ivan Telegin

The article Ivan Telegin has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable junior hockey player who has not yet established himself to meet notability requirements per WP:NHOCKEY. Wikipedia is not a Crystal Ball

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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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. Dolovis (talk) 00:56, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Diacritics

Hi. Concerning your last edits on 2009 NHL Entry Draft, please be aware of that per Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey#Wikiproject notice all North American hockey pages should have player names without diacritics. Cheers Tooga - BØRK! 17:30, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

 Thanks for letting me know. CheersUSA1168 (talk) 03:37, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion contested: Philipp Grubauer

I have contested the proposed deletion of Philipp Grubauer, as per WP:R it is perfectly reasonable for a subject that fails notability guidelines to have a redirect page to a related subject that does meet notability guidelines. In this case the subject appears to be on the current roster of the Kingston Frontenacs, so a redirect is not unreasonable. If you believe this redirect still needs to be deleted, feel free to nominate it at Redirects for discussion, but please look over WP:RFD#DELETE before doing so.

Also, when placing a proposed deletion tag, or any deletion tag, for that matter, it is necessary to retain the page content so that people evaluating the proposed deletion may easily see whether or not the article should be deleted. The proposed deletion tag should be placed on top of the article content, not in place of it. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 06:14, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

I have also done the same for 15 other redirects on ice hockey players that you prodded on 19 February, again on the grounds that these players' names are only redirects to related articles that meet the notability guidelines. While I do believe some of these redirects need to be retargeted, I don't believe deletion is the answer. My comment above about retaining article content still stands.—KuyaBriBri^Talk 06:37, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Current season statistics

Per Wikipedia standard for professional athletes, please do not update current year statistics, as you did at Michael Frolík, until end of season as it makes a mess of the edits database and Wikipedia is not intended to be up to the minute sports stat database. Dolovis (talk) 14:06, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

I have also hidden the current season statistics for 5 other Stat Updates that you edited on February 20th, again on the grounds that per Wikipedia standard for professional athletes current year statistics should not be updated until the end of the season. There are many player articles that would benefit from the creation of a "Stats" section, and you are advised that your time would be better spent to create and update statistics for those player articles that actually need them. Dolovis (talk) 14:34, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

March 2011

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload new images. However, it appears that one or more of the images you have recently uploaded or added to an article, specifically Ilya Kovalchuk, may fail our non-free image policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted image of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free image criteria. Please note that we take very seriously our criteria on non-free image uploads and users who repeatedly upload or misuse non-free images may be blocked from editing. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. —KRM ^{(Communicate!)} 00:11, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Peter Delmas

The article Peter Delmas has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The subject of this article does not appear to meet the general notability guideline or the WP:NHOCKEY guideline for ice hockey players.

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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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. Onthegogo (talk) 20:53, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Garret Bembridge

The article Garret Bembridge has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Stifle (talk) 16:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Petteri Similä

The article Petteri Similä has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

non-notable hockey player

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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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. Overdrawn Invader (talk) 19:41, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Petteri Similä for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Petteri Similä is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petteri Similä until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Overdrawn Invader (talk) 20:43, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Matthew Puempel for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Matthew Puempel is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Puempel until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Favoid (talk) 19:53, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Anže Kopitar GA review

Hi, I have reviewed this article at GAN, and unfortunately chose to fail it as there is too much missing information. You can find my review ant comments at Talk:Anže Kopitar/GA1. Please consider addressing these issues and expanding where suggested. Once you believe the article ready for another look, resubmit to GAN and let me know. I will give it a new review at that time, without your having to wait two months for the GAN backlog. Thanks, Resolute 17:18, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Mike Lee (ice hockey) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mike Lee (ice hockey) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Lee (ice hockey) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Tubetest (talk) 20:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Mark Macmillan listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mark Macmillan. Since you had some involvement with the Mark Macmillan redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ^(talk) 01:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:14, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Adam Hobson for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Adam Hobson is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Hobson until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Joeykai (talk) 06:50, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Riley Emmerson for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Riley Emmerson is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Riley Emmerson until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Joeykai (talk) 06:56, 13 June 2016 (UTC)