User talk:Alec White

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Hello, Alec White, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Pelham High School - Pelham, NH, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Pelham High School - Pelham, NH


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Pelham High School - Pelham, NH requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. - MrX 13:45, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Creating new articles
Hallo, Thanks for starting the article at Pelham High School - Pelham, NH. I found it while stub-sorting and helped it along somewhat.

If you're going to create a new article, please look at similar ones to get the feeling for how to format the actual title. I've moved the school to Pelham High School (New Hampshire) - and in fact there were several existing redlinks to that title, as it's the predictable form of the title.

It's also important to put some content into an article, not just a title! I've done a bit of work on this one, so it should now survive. Please expand it, using independent sources which write about the school.

I've also moved the Alabama school from Pelham High School to Pelham High School (Alabama), and created a disambiguation page at the general title, to help readers to find all the various Pelham Highs.

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey - Happy Editing! Pam D  17:46, 26 November 2013 (UTC)