User talk:Termiy

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--Wikipedia's own Termiy 12:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

You tagged Mellon (saint) with {{db|empty}}. That is entirely a wrong use of CSD. The article has two references, and a perfectly good definition. Charles Matthews 10:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I have checked other taggings of yours. One needed to be a redirect; another needed the {{not english}} template. I'd like to point out that there is no chance of anyone becoming admin who can't deal with policy in a more nuanced way. Stick to tagging nonsense articles until you have a better grasp of how it works. Charles Matthews 10:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some suggestions...

Hi... I happened to see your page and, after looking at your contributions, wanted to give you some suggestions to help you become a better editor. I see that you've been working on newpage patrol, which is a great way to help Wikipedia. However, along the way, some of the things you've done weren't the ideal way to handle the articles you found, so I wanted to point them out to improve how you deal with similar situations in the future:

  • Stub tagging is very important, but be careful to use the right one. Here [1], for example, you put a football player in a stub category for musicians. When adding a stub tag to an article, look carefully at the article and the many stub categories we have and choose the most appropriate one.
  • You tagged The Road To Serfdom for deletion as an empty page, since it just said "See The Road to Serfdom." In this case, the best thing to do was to redirect to The Road to Serfdom, so that users would be taken to the correct page. (See WP:REDIRECT for more information on how and why to create a redirect.) In general, when you find a brand new page that's about an already-existing topic, the simplest thing to do is to change it into a redirect. If the page has meaningful content that's not already in the existing page, you can merge that information into the other page and then redirect; if you don't feel comfortable doing the merge yourself, use the merge proposal process (see WP:MERGE for more on how to do this, and about merging in general).
  • As Charles mentioned above, don't tag articles for speedy deletion unless they very clearly meet the criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any doubts about whether something falls under the criteria, especially A7, it's better to err on the side of caution: talk to the article's creator about your concerns, search for sources yourself, and if you still think the article's subject is non-notable, use the proposed deletion or articles for deletion processes.
  • Be careful in your use of warning templates. It's important to notify users when you mark a page they've created for any of the three deletion processes, and in many cases, the warning templates are the best way to do this. Before doing so, though, take a brief look at the user's page and contributions to get an idea of their level of experience -- while a template is a great way to quickly notify a new user about a problem, established users may find receiving one to be rude. (Read the Don't Template the Regulars essay for some more information about this.) A personal message expressing your concerns about an article is more appropriate for an experienced user, especially since such users are less likely to have created pages that fall under the speedy deletion criteria -- an article that seems inappropriate is probably just one that the author is still working on.

Finally, a note about your userpage -- you make a big deal out of the fact that you want to become an admin, even including a practice RfA. This probably isn't the best way to approach things for a couple of reasons. First, you've only been here for a couple of weeks, and need a lot more experience before considering nominating yourself (or having someone else nominate you) for adminship. Second, mentioning a desire for adminship on your page often gives the appearance that you're here to gain some sort of power instead of to build an encyclopedia; people may find that offputting when dealing with you, and if someday you do find yourself with an admin nomination, a lot of people will oppose you simply because of that. Make good contributions in many different aspects of the Wikipedia, especially article writing, vandal fighting, and policy discussions, and eventually your work will speak for itself much better than anything else could.

I hope this is helpful to you -- it looks to me like you're genuinely interested in doing good things here, and I'm always anxious to help new users along the path to becoming great editors. If you have any questions about anything I've said here, or anything else, please let me know -- just reply here and I'll be happy to help. Pinball22 17:59, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. You are right in all that you mentioned. If I do need help, I won't hesitate to contact you! But, right this moment, I have nothing to need help with! Thanks again! Wikipedia's own Termiy 14:21, 7 July 2007 (UTC)