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invite to Somerset wikiproject edit

Rod talk 20:39, 25 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

 

A tag has been placed on Men of Power : Court intrigue in the life of Catherine Howard (book), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. BelovedFreak 13:54, 8 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

March 2010 edit

  You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Men of Power : Court intrigue in the life of Catherine Howard (book). This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. BelovedFreak 13:55, 8 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Wives of Henry VIII. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself. Please use the {{hangon}} template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion, and make your case on the page's talk page. Thank you. please note that this applies whether or not you are logged in to your account. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

 
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WP Somerset members list edit

Hi, I'm doing some housekeeping tasks at Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset. I'm contacting all those listed as members who haven't edited wikipedia for more than 6 months to see if they want to be kept on the list. If you would still like to be a member of the wikiproject please let me know either on my talk page or the project talk page, otherwise I will take your name off the list in a month or so.— Rod talk 09:07, 1 January 2011 (UTC)Reply