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Speedy deletion nomination of Agelaia vicina

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Agelaia vicina requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Agelaia vicina

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Agelaia vicina requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Aerospeed (Talk) 23:13, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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Polybioides raphigastra

Hi VGurusamy. Thank you for your additions to wasp articles. I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and part of my job is support editors like you with your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that your Polybioides raphigastra article has suffered quite a bit of tagging since you created it; that tends to be one of the problems you encounter when you start an article in the article space instead of a sandbox. It's not a problem, especially if you finish it up soon (your submissions are due tonight, right?) but if you want me to move it into a sandbox for you, just let me know.

As an aside, section headers aren't supposed to be capitalized (except the first word of the header) unless they are proper nouns - in other words, it should be "Colony cycle" not "Colony Cycle". Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Also a quick question about this image that you added to the map. Although you tagged the file on Commons as being available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, I wasn't able to find anything on the Discover Life website that supported this. Could you please include a link to the page where you found the information about copyright for that image? Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:40, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

http://eol.org/data_objects/21396931

It is located on the right hand side of the page under the Source Information heading. There is a clickable object that says (CC) BY-NC-SA. If you click that the license pops up. Thats the best way I can describe it I think. - VGurusamy

NC means non-commercial, so that license is incompatible with Wikipedia's licensing policy. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:22, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

That said, it's just a couple dots on a map. It shouldn't be hard to replicate it using freely available images. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:03, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Did you know...?

Thank you for your recent contribution to Polybioides raphigastra

I wonder if you would like to consider submitting it as a candidate for the "Did you know...?" feature. DYKs (as they are commonly called) are short snippets taken from Wikipedia's newest articles and, if approved, appear on the Main Page. You can learn more about this at Wikipedia:Did you know.

Your article Polybioides raphigastra appears to meet the criteria for submission as a DYK but would be greatly improved if you expanded the lead section to briefly summarize the main points of the article.If you choose to submit a short (and interesting) fact from your article, please read the rules and the supplementary guidelines carefully. Please ask me if you have further questions.

According to the DYK tool, your article was created or expanded on October 15. DYKs must be nominated within 7 days of the creation or 5-fold expansion of the article, so if you choose to submit your article, please act quickly! Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)