Viyer
Welcome to Wikipedia! edit
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Also, thank you for adding the Albóndigas article. Wikipedia always needs additional substantive material. I hope you'll keep adding to Wikipedia.
--A. B. 06:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Having welcomed you, I need to point out that since your Albóndigas article is primarily a recipe, this article may be inappropriate (as presently written) for Wikipedia but may instead be better suited for one its sister projects such as Wikihow. See the article, "What Wikipedia is not", especially the section "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information". You'll notice that paragraph #8 says:
- Instruction manuals - while Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice ( legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. Wikibooks is a Wikipedia sister-project which is better suited for such things. Note that this does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia. If you're interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at Wikihow.
It's likely that this article may get deleted soon for this reason, so I suggest you either
- edit the article so that it's not mostly a cookbook entry , or
- move the article over to Wikihow (I'm not sure how such a move works, but you should be able to find some sort of help on this site that will show you how to do this).
Best regards,
--A. B. 06:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Jolene Tam edit
The article Jolene Tam has been or soon will be deleted from Wikipedia. This happened because the article seems to be about a subject but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. NawlinWiki 18:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)