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Melchoir
00:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi lilly. Your topic looks weird. I have concerns. Lirani ( talk) 18:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, you can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~~~~. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. There were two main issues with the article as it looked when it was deleted.
Professor, I'm a campus ambassador in Los Angeles and a member of the "Articles for Creation" (AfC) WikiProject. I noticed Draft:Sweetie: The Internet Scamming Avatar and began to fix it in the process of reviewing it, as the subject appeared notable enough for acceptance. I didn't realize at first it was an assignment by your student, Adippoli. It would appear Adippoli had created Sweetie (The Internet Avatar), which was subsequently deleted by DragonflySixtyseven as an apparent copyright violation. As you can imagine, copyright violations are not tolerated here.
I noticed your course doesn't have a campus ambassador. If San Diego wasn't so far away I would've been happy to help. Jami (Wiki Ed) and Kevin Gorman are responsible for providing you help with monitoring your students' activities on Wikipedia.
As an aside, I recommend your students avoid using AfC. Reviews are often delayed for weeks or months. If your students work within their user sandbox they can draft at their own pace and then move the content into the article namespace. Often students learn more by editing existing articles so they can interact (and learn from) other editors. Chris Troutman ( talk) 01:12, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
We do have tags that get added to articles, in big obvious boxes at the beginning; they say things like [["this article is too promotional in tone", or "this article is too colloquial" or "this article feels like an editorial". Some people ignore them. Some people get very upset when their articles are tagged with these boxes early on. Anything more specific than that... I don't know if it could really be automated or quantified. As for the Sweetie article, I've been reprocessing it significantly -- as a teaching tool for your students, I've made several discrete changes, each with its own distinct rationale. It's not finished yet, but have a look. DS ( talk) 18:36, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I wrote to your class at Posting to a Wikipedia article is the beginning of an assignment, not the end. I see that the class has a deadline tomorrow and suddenly lots of people are submitting content. Have you accounted for Wikipedia community review? If you have questions, please go to the Wikipedia:Education noticeboard. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:57, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Carl Countryman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tchaliburton ( talk) 01:11, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Lirani, I have added an Infobox person to the page. Could you fill in any missing information you know. I have make the birth and death days html comments. If you have the actual dates add them and then remove the html comment delimiters, (look at the source of this comment. Edit the section to see it)
Also normally references are sited inline with the text of the aritcle. You have used the Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).. Some more text using the same reference<ref name=foo \>.
Then in the ==References== section you use:
to generate the reference list.
At least this is how I learned how to do it.
Thanks RLH -- Robert.Harker ( talk) 01:41, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Welcome!
Hello, Lirani, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}}
on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
Melchoir
00:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi lilly. Your topic looks weird. I have concerns. Lirani ( talk) 18:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, you can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~~~~. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked. There were two main issues with the article as it looked when it was deleted.
Professor, I'm a campus ambassador in Los Angeles and a member of the "Articles for Creation" (AfC) WikiProject. I noticed Draft:Sweetie: The Internet Scamming Avatar and began to fix it in the process of reviewing it, as the subject appeared notable enough for acceptance. I didn't realize at first it was an assignment by your student, Adippoli. It would appear Adippoli had created Sweetie (The Internet Avatar), which was subsequently deleted by DragonflySixtyseven as an apparent copyright violation. As you can imagine, copyright violations are not tolerated here.
I noticed your course doesn't have a campus ambassador. If San Diego wasn't so far away I would've been happy to help. Jami (Wiki Ed) and Kevin Gorman are responsible for providing you help with monitoring your students' activities on Wikipedia.
As an aside, I recommend your students avoid using AfC. Reviews are often delayed for weeks or months. If your students work within their user sandbox they can draft at their own pace and then move the content into the article namespace. Often students learn more by editing existing articles so they can interact (and learn from) other editors. Chris Troutman ( talk) 01:12, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
We do have tags that get added to articles, in big obvious boxes at the beginning; they say things like [["this article is too promotional in tone", or "this article is too colloquial" or "this article feels like an editorial". Some people ignore them. Some people get very upset when their articles are tagged with these boxes early on. Anything more specific than that... I don't know if it could really be automated or quantified. As for the Sweetie article, I've been reprocessing it significantly -- as a teaching tool for your students, I've made several discrete changes, each with its own distinct rationale. It's not finished yet, but have a look. DS ( talk) 18:36, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I wrote to your class at Posting to a Wikipedia article is the beginning of an assignment, not the end. I see that the class has a deadline tomorrow and suddenly lots of people are submitting content. Have you accounted for Wikipedia community review? If you have questions, please go to the Wikipedia:Education noticeboard. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:57, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Carl Countryman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Tchaliburton ( talk) 01:11, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Lirani, I have added an Infobox person to the page. Could you fill in any missing information you know. I have make the birth and death days html comments. If you have the actual dates add them and then remove the html comment delimiters, (look at the source of this comment. Edit the section to see it)
Also normally references are sited inline with the text of the aritcle. You have used the Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).. Some more text using the same reference<ref name=foo \>.
Then in the ==References== section you use:
to generate the reference list.
At least this is how I learned how to do it.
Thanks RLH -- Robert.Harker ( talk) 01:41, 1 September 2014 (UTC)