User talk:Trelane

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Trelane, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Boot Camp, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Stifle 13:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kobutsu Shindo Malone

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Stifle 13:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Deletion

While working on layout for an entry I was working on (my first from scratch mind you) I saved the article and it immediately got a speedy deletion tag. I continued adding pertinant information and deleted the tab. I hadn't finished the article yet but it was deleted. It was both relevant (An American Roshi publically active in both American Prison Zen teaching, and the Abolition movement against the death penalty. I don't have a lot of spare time but this article is both infinately cross-linkable to relevant other wikipedia articles, and is encyclopedic. However due to speedy deletion before I could finish it I have no real desire to ever do a wikipedia edit again. Thank you for nothing. Trelane 04:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Just poking my head in here. I've had the page restored and moved it to Trelane's userspace to avoid having it zotted again before he gets a chance to include more information. In the future please don't edit war in speedy tags against named users who are available for a discussion. --Gmaxwell 05:05, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to piece together what happened here. I can't see if somebody is "available for a discussion", and if I have to welcome a new user, then chances are they may not be fully aware of policies such as not removing (speedy) deletion tags. It's a good idea to only put up articles that at least pass the guidelines for inclusion (which in the case of biographical articles are WP:BIO), or to work on articles in your userspace before moving them over to the main space. I'm sorry that your early experiences of Wikipedia were so negative, but I would hope that you will continue to edit and enjoy your Wiki experience. Stifle 13:52, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Though belated I think I should note that I deleted no such tag, I hit "submit" instead of preview, and without realizing it went back to editing the page. Someone edit-warred in a {speedy} tag and when I saved the article next the tag was lost.

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