User talk:Jarrial
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Hello there. I replied to your HD question; if you'd like any help with infoboxes, you're welcome to drop me a line. Click the initials in my signature to get to my talk page. Regards, Adrian M. H. 20:02, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hi there. Thanks for the reply. After my first post to your talk page, I checked your contributions to see what the situation was and found that the article that you created has been tagged for speedy deletion by another editor. In its current form, this tag is indisputable, and you may not have enough time to change that situation without notifying observing editors that you intend to develop the article; you do this simply by adding {{hangon}} to the page, above or below the tag's template. However, what you said on my talk page (about the school's history) means that your content may in fact be better placed in a section of the Harding University article. I'm not in the best place (not being familiar with the subject) to judge whether you can provide enough fully sourced attributable material to form anything more than a stub. If a decent article is achievable, then a separate article is warranted.
- There are some key policies that apply here, the basics of which you will need to be reasonably familiar with. These are Notability, Attribution and Citing Sources, which are inter-related. The basic premise of all these is that content must be attributable to reliable third party sources, which need to be properly cited, and the subject needs to be notable. The latter should not be an issue, since this relates to the history of a subject about which there is already an article.
- As for the potential deletion; I would suggest that you let it get deleted. If adding content to the Harding University article proves to be the best approach, then you won't need it, and if you decide that you have enough material (and enough notability) to support a new article, then you can just go ahead and recreate it. Deleted articles often get recreated, and if they are up to scratch, then they don't get deleted a second time.
- In the meantime, I will work to provide you with some suitable infobox templates (all the requisite templates already exist) and you can work on some more text content. Please don't let the initial apparent complexity of the Wikipedia process discourage you at all; help is always available from other editors and Wikiprojects (I think there is a project for school articles). Regards, Adrian M. H. 21:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Schools template[edit]
Hi, in answer to your query try here: Template:Infobox Secondary school TerriersFan 21:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Please be aware, though, that some of the fields in the example on the left of the page do not match the fields in the template. To be certain to use the correct field names, you'll need to copy out the words in curly brackets in the right-hand column of the template itself. In the article to which you're adding the infobox, you should have a wikitable like the example on the template page, but with the fields that you need. Any extraneous fields can be discarded. You won't need to edit the template for this. You can also look through Category:Education infobox templates if you need an alternative. Get back to me if you would like further help. Adrian M. H. 22:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Spam in Jarrial Astor Stokes[edit]
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July 2010[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Flea market do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. E Wing (talk) 03:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)