Ztrautman

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Thanks. Blanchardb-^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}-timed 01:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I deleted the one in mainspace, but thinking this one should stay in case the article has a chance at some point. Xavexgoem (talk) 09:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Comment - Google search using http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=Military+Child+Education+Coalition+news - not even 10 down into the list:

• TriWest Contributes $10,000 - http://www.triwest.com/corporate/frames.aspx?page=/unauth/content/triwest/newsroom/news/releases/2007/nr_mcec_partnership.asp
• Sesame Workshop expands Military Families Initiative - http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2006/121506.shtml
• Armed Forces Press release - Praising Military Child Education Coalition - http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44729 —Preceding unsigned comment added by GaryECampbell (talk • contribs) 06:08, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "Military Child Education Coalition"

A page you created, Military Child Education Coalition, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is obvious advertising or promotional material.

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Thanks. Blanchardb-^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}-timed 02:26, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to User:Ztrautman. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. --Blanchardb-^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}-timed 03:06, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

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If you need any help with the article you're trying to build, give me a ring :-) Xavexgoem (talk) 09:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

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Ah, yeah... sorry about that. Figured I'd keep the one in your userpage; I don't think it actually qualified under blatant advertising.

Anywho, what you need to do is establish notability for the subject - a quick google of "Military Child Education Coalition" yields ~12,000 hits, so that shouldn't be hard. The relevant policies to check up on are Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Citing sources. Just message me on my talk page (email probably not necessary) if you need any help with those.

Although a quick run-down of notability: the article needs to address that it is a well-known institution, and that info needs to be backed up with reliable third-party sources (like anything in the .mil or .gov, I'm thinking). For the moment, I don't actually recommend reading the article about citing sources, since it's a huge mess. Instead, an article that has a table of contents like this will do:

Lead paragraph
History
(etc)
References
External links

And just pile the references under that header. I'd also recommend putting square brackets around obvious things like [[National Guard]], just to provide a map of other articles to go to. At any rate, I'll keep a watch on your page and wikify it here and there :-) Xavexgoem (talk) 22:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

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