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October 2013
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September 2015
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International postcard week
Hi 1987,

I see that all your edits to Wikipedia so far have been attempts to publicise National Postcard Week. I can tell that you feel strongly about the subject, but editing Wikipedia to push a specific agenda is strongly discouraged. Please have a look at our conflict of interest policy. You'll see that it mostly talks about financial interests, but the general principle is that on Wikipedia we want authors who are motivated by the desire to write an excellent free online encyclopedia, not partisans who have something t promote.

The easiest way to get into the first group is to look for subjects that you know something about, but which you can write about with a healthy degree of detachment.

If you'd like any help building Wikipedia, please leave a note on my talk page, or attract my attention by writing in your reply. --Slashme (talk) 06:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, Slashme (talk) If you look at the list of unofficial holidays, International Postcard Week fits right in. I did not add a link the last time. So why can it not be added??? It IS an unofficial holiday that is celebrated on the first full week of October. National Postcard Week too (only here in the USA) has been celebrated for over 30 years now (first full week of May). Even that one is not on the list.

Thank you for your reply, ~Brenda


 * Hi Brenda,


 * International postcard week is, as far as I can tell, not yet at the required level of notability for Wikipedia: it has not yet been significantly covered by independent reliable sources. The reason that we have these inclusion criteria is that articles take work to maintain, and articles about subjects that have not yet been thoroughly covered in sources which are independent of their creator are vulnerable to addition of inaccurate information, and it's hard to verify their content.


 * The same goes for that list of unofficial observances: if we don't keep it down to items that are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles, or for which we have a few good independent sources at the very least, it's hard to keep it under control.


 * After a quick Google Books search, I'd say that National Postcard Week probably is notable by now, so if you like, you can add it to the list along with some citations.


 * To make this easier, you might like to enable the VisualEditor - it will make editing easier in general, and has some special tools to add properly-formatted citations. Let me know if you find this helpful.


 * I'm curious: What is your connection with International Postcard Week, and how did you get involved? Apart from that topic, what kind of articles would you like to help with on Wikipedia? You might, for example, find that the WikiProject_Philately has some tasks that you would be interested in. --David (David's talk) 13:58, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it very much and I do understand. Would you please add National Postcard Week for me? I have participated in National Postcard Week for many years now and many times heard people say they would like an International Postcard Week, but no one had the time to start it and organize it. So I took on the project. I am the owner of '9teen87s Postcards' and have several blogs with thousands of postcards by subject. . . ex: one of just space, one of only Disney, Views of the World, the stamps on the postcards and more. My main blog is www.9teen87sPostcards.blogspot.com and there is one new postcard every day. There are over 15,000 cards in my collection from the 1800's to today. I am also a member of Postcrossing and host all the Florida meet-ups and have gone to Europe for Postcard meet-ups as well. It is a LOT of fun!! So that is my interest in International Postcard Week. :D

Have a great weekend, ~Brenda (9teen87s Postcards) (I married the love of my life in 1987 - that is where the name comes from.)


 * I've recreated National Postcard Week - it seems that it was deleted about four years ago: if you check the talk page attached to the article, you'll find a link to the previous deletion discussion. I think the current stub article that I created should survive, though, because I've pointed out why the topic is notable, given some basic facts, and linked a number of books to support the statements in the article. I intentionally didn't link to the National Postcard Week website: its current look would lead the casual observer to doubt the notability of the subject :-D


 * By the way, you'll notice that I included a link to an Australian publication that was celebrating postcard week at the same time as the USA. Why not instead just remove the "National" bit, and make Postcard Week international? In other words, why should the USA celebrate postcard week at a different time from the rest of the world? --Slashme (talk) 20:12, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello,

Thank you! The page looks wonderful. As for changing National Postcard Week into Int. Postcard Week, most of the people who swap have done so from the beginning and are quite elderly. They do not have computers and most of the swapping is done via snail mail. They have tried a few times to get it going international, but it never took off. So, we started a separate holiday (some wanted to design and swap cards twice a year anyway.) So I looked at the calendar and split the year up, and chose the first week in October because that will usually fall on World Post Day. If you feel like joining in on the fun, just let me know and I'd be happy to add your name to the list :D

Thank you again for your help, ~Brenda (9teen87s Postcards)