User talk:Harebag
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Hi Harebag! Welcome! When I saw the article on the Pigeon Force Police Department, I thought it was a joke. It is real. I also started a new article on Larry Buendorf. He's a secret service agent that wrestled a presidential assassin to the ground. Any suggestions for improvement, let me know. As for your article, I suggest a little background. Mention the city and state name. Fix the link. Good Luck on editing! VK35 19:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Additional suggestions for Pigeon Force PD: Who's the chief? Any major history? Big crime solved? Any controversy or major lawsuit against it? When was it established? Was the area patrolled by the county sheriff before then and then the city was established (if so when?). These are just tips. Otherwise, there is a risk that someone will petition for the article's deletion because there is a board for that (thus destroying your hard work). That's the reason that I wrote quite a bit about my new article first rather than just start out with a few sentences and add to it slowly. I do plan to add more to my article, though.VK35 20:40, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
1. Please sign your messages so people know who is writing them and can write back to you. You do this by clicking on the 4 squiggly lines about 3 inches below the box where you type.
2. There are people who search for things to delete. Don't ask me why.
3. To add references, type in the reference after your sentence. For example, type "Boston is the capital of Massachusetts." then after the period type a < then ref then > then http.so and so then < then / then ref then >. I can't do it here otherwise the computer will make my example into a footnote and you then wouldn't be able to see it. The at the bottom, type { then { then reflist then } then } so that the references will print up as a list.
Another way is just to pull up an article, push the "edit this page" and see how the computer source is written and copy it for your article.VK35 21:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't know the answers to your questions. Just wait and see. I wouldn't do 20 articles at once until you get a feel of what's accepted and what's not. I'm the wrong person to ask. Don't worry, people will come around. They did to my article within a day or two.VK35 21:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with Pigeon Forge Police Department. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) 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. -- Mufka (user) (talk) (contribs) 21:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- In response to your comment here: I had originally marked the Pigeon Forge Police Department article for speedy deletion because I didn't think that it met notability requirements. The policy for speedy deletion templates is that they cannot be removed by the creator of the article (whether you agree or not). It is up to an admin to remove the template if they think that the article should not be deleted. I'm not putting the template back for now, but just keep the policy in mind for the future. See WP:SPEEDY. I suggest that you continue to improve the article to assert its notability so it doesn't end up deleted. Also see WP:NOTABILITY. -- Mufka (user) (talk) (contribs) 21:57, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
In response to your question - When gathering information from another web site, you need to be careful to not violate the source's copyright, see WP:COPYVIO. The best thing to do is to paraphrase the content that you want to include and then reference the source see WP:REF. Never copy and paste information into an article. As far as using images, I am not an expert on the subject - check WP:IMAGE for info. Let me know if you have any additional concerns and I will try to help. -- Mufka (user) (talk) (contribs) 03:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
