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Credit help guide

Credit help guide has been proposed for deletion. Please review WP:CORP for relevant guidelines and improve the article if possible. NickelShoe 20:06, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

March 2006

Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. Monkeyman^(talk) 18:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Question on External Links

HI Monkeyman, Question on external links. From what I read on the beginner's tutorials, we're encouraged to place the sites that we're using as sources for new content we add/edit into Wikipedia. I'm often using my site, the Credit Help Guide US, as this source. However it has been pulled twice by you when I list it. When content has been added/edited and then I list the site as a source, isn't that acceptable? Thanks for your help in me understanding. Dwcusc 00:49, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwcusc. The link you are adding to articles (www.mone yadvance.us) is not a reference site, it is a click referral page. Please understand that we have a serious spam problem at Wikipedia. We are constantly under attack from advertisers who would love to get their links listed in our articles. Because of this, we have had to adopt a very strict external link policy and unfortunately there are very few links that warrant mention in the external links or references section. Monkeyman^(talk) 03:22, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 00:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

VantageScore

Jamie, please do not remove the Credit Help Guide US link from the Source section of my articles. It adheres to Wikipedia guidelines in that the content I am helping to create is in part based on information on Credit Help Guide US (www.credithelpguide.us). This site, also according to Wikipedia guidelines, is free to all consumers and charges nothing for access to any of its content. Dwcusc 00:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Jamie, explain to me how you feel the SOURCE link I placed is considered advertising? Real content was produced thanks in part to this FREE site. Where do you see signs of advertising? Dwcusc 00:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

From the site: The site is trying to make a modest profit by promoting credit services. [1]. That site is certainly not the only source of information mentioned in that article. It's clearly a promotional site. Wikipedia is not for advertising. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 00:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Jamie, Credit Help Guide US displays sponsor ads or links just as many other for-profit sites that are quoted throughout Wikipedia. The site does not charge its consumers a single cent for reading its articles. On that very same Wikipedia article, Payday Loans, Slate.com is listed as an External Link. When I go to Slate.com I see 3 different sponsor ads to the left, bottom and top of the actual article. I also see an "advertiser link" advertising to "Get a $200,000 loan for $833/Month." Sites like Yahoo News, MSN Money and many more have the same links. Why do you feel you can indiscriminately single out sites that don't have large corporation names behind them? All the sites mentioned are open to the public to read their content, but place ads to allow consumers to help support the site IF they choose to. Please reverse your edits and add back the Source links to Payday Loans and VantageScore. Dwcusc 09:32, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Slate has ads, but it's also highly notable and frequently cited along with other major news outlets and magazines. The Credit Help Guide article was already afd'd because it did not meet the criteria in WP:WEB. As I said before, there are more authoritative sources for that info (such as vantagescore.com). Wikipedia is not a vehicle to promote your website. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 16:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Katrina Darrell

I have nominated Katrina Darrell, 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/Katrina Darrell. 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. Mr. Vernon (talk) 01:50, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Image permission problem with Image:KatrinaDarrell Idol FirstTryouts.jpg

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File:KatrinaDarrell Idol FirstTryouts.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:KatrinaDarrell Idol FirstTryouts.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 05:38, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

An article you created maybe deleted soon: Tools which can help you

The article you created: Katrina Darrell may be deleted from Wikipedia.

There is an ongoing debate about whether your article should be deleted here:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katrina Darrell.

The faster you respond on this page, the better chance the article you created can be saved.

Finding sources which mention the topic of your article is the very best way to avoid an article being deleted {{Findsources3}}:

Find sources for Katrina Darrell: google news recent, google news old, google books, google scholar, NYT recent, NYT old, a9, msbooks, msacademic ...You can then cite these results in the Article for deletion discussion.

Also, there are several tools and helpful editors on Wikipedia who can help you:

1. List the page on Article Rescue Squadron. You can get help listing your page on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page.

2. At any time, you can ask any administrator to move your article to a special page. (Called userfication)

3. You can request a mentor to help explain all of the complex rules that editors use to get a page deleted: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. But don't wait for a mentor to respond to you before responding on the article for deletion page.

4. When trying to delete a page, veteran editors love to use a lot of rule acronyms. Don't let these acronyms intimidate you. Here is a list of acronyms you can use yourself: WP:Deletion debate acronyms which may support the page you created being kept.

If your page is deleted, you also have many options available. Good luck! Ikip (talk) 06:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Nomination of Katrina Darrell for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Katrina Darrell 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/Katrina Darrell (2nd nomination) 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. -- Tavix ^(talk) 23:46, 15 August 2015 (UTC)