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Hello, Cameron Laird and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking   if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dougweller (talk) 14:48, 18 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
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Notability of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols edit

 

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Battle of Hastings edit

Editing is blocked only for new users and IPs. Once you've edited 10 times elsewhere you should be able to edit the article. It gets vandalised every time it's unprotected. Dougweller (talk) 14:48, 18 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Catherine Bracy edit

 

The article Catherine Bracy has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the 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. Gbawden (talk) 12:44, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science edit

 

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Speedy deletion nomination of Citizens Engagement Laboratory Education Fund edit

 

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A tag has been placed on Citizens Engagement Laboratory Education Fund requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Catherine Bracy edit

 

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A tag has been placed on Catherine Bracy requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content or organised event, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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, you can place a request here. Bbb23 (talk) 18:39, 27 November 2013 (UTC) {{subst:prodwarning|1=Catherine Bracy|concern=I am unsure this person is notable. Please provide reliable sources to verify [[WP:N|notability.}} JodyB talk 18:43, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

Everything OK now, JodyB? I've added categories, I've supplied secondary references ... Let me know if anything else is necessary for demonstration of notability.

I have "userfied" this article for you - moved it to the location above in your userspace where you can work on it. If it is to be kept, you need to show how the CELEF meets Wikipedia's inclusion criterion, which is called WP:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See also WP:Notability (summary) and WP:Notability (organizations and companies.

If you input an article which does not at least make a credible claim of significance or importance, it is liable to be speedily deleted (because many people put in "articles" like that and never improve them). If you want to take time over developing an article, the best way is to click on Help:Userspace draft and input the title: that will make a draft page for you to work in.

You need to consider notability when choosing a subject, in order to avoid wasting time. There is good advice at WP:Your first article. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:06, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

Catherine Bracy needs better sourcing edit

You have made a start on the Catherine Bracy article. But you do not have any reliable sources. You need things like newspaper articles or magazine reports of Bracy and her work. LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube are generally not accepted either. The idea is that if Bracy is truly notable, there will be coverage of her in other works that are considered reliable. I would start with local newspaper coverage and work from there. Just because a person or organization exists does not mean it is worthy of an article here. I would quickly gather those sources and bring them to the article. Otherwise, the article will be removed. Let me know if I can explain or help. JodyB talk 01:42, 28 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

JodyB, I probably won't be able to work on this again until around 3-4 December. Are PandoWeekly, ThinkUp, ... *not* considered reliable magazines? As I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing/4, I understood them to be among those "... written by the publisher's professional writers ...", and therefore included--in fact, to be preferred over local newspapers. If local newspapers are preferred, then perhaps I'll make time next week to provide those.

Your draft article, User:Cameron Laird/Citizens Engagement Laboratory Education Fund edit

 

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CalOtter (talk) 13:22, 22 March 2019 (UTC)Reply