MissOceanography

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Kolbasz (talk) 10:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Kolbasz (talk) 10:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. A page that you nominated for speedy deletion, Gaddaluru, is not eligible for speedy deletion. Speedy deletion is a shortcut that allows pages to be deleted without community discussion, and it can only be used in very specific circumstances. Please carefully read WP:NPP and WP:CSD before nominating any more pages for speedy deletion and ask any questions you have here. Thank you. - MrX 21:14, 7 March 2016 (UTC) Please also see WP:A1. - MrX 11:04, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

• Also Yaron Tsur - Please see WP:A7.- MrX 11:11, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
• Also Akif Emre - makes claims of significance. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Speedy tagging and warning authors

Thanks for patrolling new pages, an important and under-appreciated task, but when you tag a page for speedy deletion you should warn its author - otherwise they do not know what has happened to their page, and probably just post it again. When the speedy-deletion template expands on the article talk page, it provides, towards the bottom of the pink box, a warning message for you to copy across.

When the author is a newbie with no messages on their talk page, like Cash Note just now, it is helpful to post a welcome message, such as {{subst:firstarticle}} or {{subst:welcome}}, on their talk page before the speedy-deletion warning - it makes it rather less WP:BITEy and discouraging.

There is good advice for speedy taggers at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:19, 30 March 2016 (UTC)