User talk:Akinderfather

Mary Toft
Just a note - Spelling was OK. Article is written in British English See WP:ENGVAR  Ron h jones (Talk) 23:08, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Alison Kinderfather
A tag has been placed on Alison Kinderfather requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.) or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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school projects
As reviewing administrator, I deleted the article. You say your teacher needed to see it for the course you were taking, but we're an encyclopedia; everything is live and cannot be used for this purpose. Please ask your teacher to first read WP:School FAQ and then to get in touch with me or one of the people listed there to discuss suitable topics. The first thing to teach in a Wikipedia editing course is what to not write an article on, and personal autobio is something to absolutely avoid.  DGG ( talk ) 00:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

My Bad
Wow - "absolutely avoid"! Pretty harsh blaze there, dude. This is only my first time on the editing side of the Wikipedia. (I fixed the typos in your paragraph - I wonder if I'll get credit for that!)

Don't blame it on the teacher. He did have us read several articles about Wikis:
 * Wikipedia: Tutorial ~ A tutorial from Wikipedia about how to edit, with a sandbox to try things out without actually editing
 * Wikipedia: How to edit a page ~ a longer, more detailed guide to editing Wikipedia
 * Help: Editing ~ more info from Wikipedia about editing Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia: Editing policy ~ The basic overview of Wikipedia's policy towards editing content
 * Wikipedia: Manual of Style ~ For the sticklers of style

For this class, I needed to edit or create 3 articles and, not being very original, I tried to write about something I knew - myself.

I will go back and re-read some of these article and Wikipages. Thanks anyway!

Alison :)