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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:00, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Cholera epidemic in Lexington, KY for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cholera epidemic in Lexington, KY 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/Cholera epidemic in Lexington, KY until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. Ymblanter (talk) 16:14, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Article deletion

Hi, I received a notification that your article was up for deletion. Looking at the article, it looks like the material is more of a collection of notes as opposed to an article on the Cholera epidemic. This would need to be completely re-written to fit Wikipedia's style guidelines.

The article should generally be set up in this order:

• Lead paragraph that introduces the article topic. It would be something like this:

The city of Lexington, Kentucky has experienced two major cholera epidemics, in 1883 and 1849. An estimated (insert number here) died as a result of the two epidemics and resulted in major changes (general statement about changes).

• Section giving a bit of context about the city, especially as it pertains to how cholera could have become an epidemic.
• Section about the 1883 epidemic
• Section about the 1840 epidemic
• Section about the legacy and impact of the epidemics

The sources should be in-line and should also be specifically about the cholera epidemics in Lexington. I saw that some of your sources were more generally about cholera or were about epidemics in other places. Be aware that using these would likely be seen as original research unless you're using them to back up a very basic fact about cholera, as using those to emphasize something or draw comparisons between the epidemics in Ohio and Kentucky would be seen as your own research. Academic and scholarly sources would be best, since they'll most likely be the ones that are the strongest and most accurate, but popular press sources like news articles are fine as well. Some good sources can be these: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9].

This still needs a lot of work, so the page should definitely not be live at this point in time. I've asked if it would be OK for this to be moved back to your sandbox so you can work on this - it should only be moved live once you have completed your work. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:12, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

• Good news! Ymblanter was kind enough to move the article to Draft:Cholera epidemic in Lexington, KY so you can work on developing this. Definitely make sure that you thank him for being willing to do this! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:55, 16 November 2018 (UTC)