User talk:Prescottbush

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[edit] Randy Stoltmann

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Randy Stoltmann article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! -- ReyBrujo 18:36, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu

Hello again. There is currently only one article linking to Randy Stoltmann (see here), and no pages linking to Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu (see here). Note that a single link in an encyclopedia that has over one million articles is considered linkless. Personally, any article that has less than 5 incoming links in the article namespace (that is, 5 or less articles linking to it) is considered linkless. Others believe at least 10 incoming link should exist. Note that the {{linkless}} template reads There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. As I said, 5 is considered very few, although others think 10 is very few. Hope that clarifies the matter -- ReyBrujo 19:00, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Note that the fact the article is marked as linkless does not make it qualify for deletion. It is just a maintenance tag used to indicate other users the article is lacking incoming links. There are a lot of such tags, like {{unreferenced}} (when the article cites no reliable sources), {{uncategorized}} (when the article lacks a category), {{inappropriate person}} (when the article is written in a second person), {{wikify}} (when the article lacks outgoing wikilinks), etc. The faster an article is tagged with a maintenance tag the faster another user will find it and correct the problem.

I do not question the validity of having an article about Randy Stoltmann, otherwise I would have tagged it as {{db-bio}} to have the article deleted in minutes. I believe he is notable enough (according to the evidence presented in the article, although it lacks references), but that does not mean the article shouldn't be tagged with maintenance tags. Remember, this is a community effort. You may begin a small article, I may tag it with some maintenance tags, and others will slowly come and fill the gaps until the article is actually helpful. In example, when I found the article about the bala shark, I tagged it with two maintenance tags.^[1] The article lacked category, wikification, it was linkless, lacked image, references, etc. Now check how the article is as of today.^[2] Now, check the history of the article.^[3] Ceosion created it, I added the tags, W.marsh added a simple category so that other users could find it,^[4] Rajah added a more specific category and expaned the article a bit,^[5] Kerripaul removed the super category,^[6] Srose wikified and expanded the article,^[7] I fixed the headings,^[8] NisseSthlm added the interwiki links (links to other Wikipedias),^[9] an anonymous added another reference and stubbed the article,^[10] Netside added an image and some minor modifications,^[11] ONUnicorn fixed the uploaded image,^[12] Netside added some more information,^[13] MiltonT did some corrections to the text,^[14] an anonymous added more categories to the article,^[15] Bggoldie added the taxobox for the article...^[16]

As you can see, the tags are not bad. They encourage people to contribute to the article, allows others to find the article in question and give a hand, and after some months, have an article that is informative enough so that a casual user may say "So, that is a bala shark".

Understand this: you don't need to do all the effort alone. Don't feel pressed because the article you created has tags. Check what each tag means, ask the one who tagged the article with such tags if you don't understand what they mean, and decide whether you have the knowledge enough to fix the problems the tags indicate. If not, leave the tags there. As you can see with this small example, the tags are helpful. They are just like signposts that allow other users to find articles. You may be happy creating articles, others are happy categorizing them, others, referencing or wikifying them. Again, since you are a new user, you may think your article is being considered unnecessary. Don't think that! Had it been unnecessary, it may have been deleted by now. As of now, some editors believe it can be useful. That doesn't mean in the future the article won't be deleted, but as of now, you should trust the other wikipedians to find your article and give you a hand. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 00:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Good to hear. Just remember that an article requires a certain time for maduration, which may be one week or a couple of years. The important thing is referencing anything you insert in the article. A well referenced article has less chances of being deleted than one with claims that cannot be verified. Keep that up, and someday the article may be good enough to be considered a featured article. -- ReyBrujo 03:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Continued violation of policy

Please don't discuss my employment on Wikipedia. It's irrelevant, and a violation of policy (personal attack) and civility. If you honestly believe that I've libelled you (assuming you are who I claim you are, which you haven't acknowledged), then please go ahead and take legal action against me. Alexwoods 17:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

This talk of personal attacks and civility sounds very funny coming from Alexwoods. Prescottbush 04:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Some page contamination by Alexwoods removed. Prescottbush 04:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)