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Thank you for experimenting with the page Wharton State Forest on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. -FisherQueen 19:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Please do not add non-notable information, such as you did to Matt Slick. If you believe it is actually notable, please discuss it on the article's discussion page. In this case, if you can provide evidence that Slick is a published poet, that would certainly go a long way. Thanks. --Yamla 21:04, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
August 2007
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although we invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Martin Chretien, was not constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Bennyboyz3000 02:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
The article Martin Chretien has been deleted. In order to explain why, let me copy my post on another discussion board:
- Well, Wikipedia has its standards, which the article obviously didn't meet. Not everything and everybody gets to have an article on Wikipedia; for example, should I create an article about myself, it would be deleted immediately upon discovery (on the grounds of our speedy deletion criteria). And Wikipedia's purpose is not to expose charlatans (let alone random Internet kooks), or to promote any point of view - it should state facts in a neutral way, and they are to be attributable to reliable sources. (For example: statement "Uri Geller is a fraud" doesn't belong to Wikipedia, but "Conjurers have been able to duplicate his claimed abilities" does.)
- The bottom line is that the article consisted of little more than two posters mocking a non-notable crackpot. If you want to do it on your personal website, fine; but please don't use Wikipedia for this purpose.