User talk:Bordley

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Your first contribution got tagged for deletion by those who patrol for such. I suspect your work has merit, but am not particularly knowledgable in the field. Please me by clicking here and let's figure out how to improve it before it gets deleted. Thanks - Williamborg (Bill) 04:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Targets and Utility

Hello, You added the following comment to my user page: "You mentioned my contribution on utility and targets was targeted for deletion. Given that it's based on published material, I'd appreciate knowing why there were concerns about the contribution. Bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bordley (talk • contribs) 14:56, 7 September 2006"

Response— Apologize for not being more clear with my comment. I did not list your article for deletion, but someone did because they had concerns about it. You can see more about the deletion decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Targets and Utility. My thoughts about it follow:
  • Several things indicate you’re new to contributing to Wikipedia. It’s perfectly okay to be new to Wikipedia; we’re all new here once. And Wikipedia tries to help new contributors since they are often capable of contributing material that others can not.
  • As you can see from the comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Targets and Utility, the individual who nominated your article for deletion thought it was original research. Original research is not allowed by Wikipolicy (see Wikipedia:No original research).
  • I wrote you the note back on August 21st because I thought you might be able to answer the questions which would keep it from being deleted (& I didn’t know enough about the topic to help rewrite it to save it).
  • One of the things that would help a great deal, especially since you indicate that it is based on referenced material, would be to add one or more references to the article (see Wikipedia:Citing sources for an explanation of how to do so). Once referenced other editors can verify your work.
  • Please feel free to talk further with me if I can help explain any of this to you. This link will put you at the right spot on my discussion page. Just click here and you can add a comment to my user discussion page. When you finish, add ~~~~ and it will add your signature.
  • Hope to see more of you on Wikipedia - Williamborg (Bill) 02:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

And as an added comment, I'm very pleased to see you've contributed more. Williamborg (Bill) 02:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)