User talk:Aljconway

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Aljconway, good luck, and have fun. – Pam  D  16:02, 28 November 2015 (UTC)  Pam  D  16:02, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, Aljconway and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Pam D  14:57, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


 * What course is this, at which college, please? Pam  D  16:05, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Ways to improve Alice Stopford Green (Project)
Hi, I'm Officialjjones. Aljconway, thanks for creating Alice Stopford Green (Project)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please add more relevant references and relevant categories if possible, thanks!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Officialjjones (talk) 01:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Creating unwanted duplicate
Hallo Aljconway. I've seen your article Alice Stopford Green (Project) and I'm sorry that your instructor has given you so little idea about how Wikipedia works.

There is an existing article, Alice Stopford Green. It has been worked on over six years by a variety of different editors.

If you would like to improve that article, that's great. Add new information, with good inline references to reliable published sources (ie not just a list at the end, but linking each statement to the references which support it). You seem to have produced an article ignoring the existing one. That's not how the encyclopedia works.

You could also usefully look at other articles to learn how an article is set out: the opening sentence should always be on the lines of ... well, I can't do better than quote the existing article: "Alice Stopford Green (30 May 1847 – 28 May 1929) was an Irish historian and nationalist." - name, dates, and why she should have a Wikipedia article. Not "After the death of her father...".

You say this is a college project. Please ask your instructor to teach you all more about how to write for Wikipedia, and encourage them to read School and university projects where there is a load of advice and help. Time and again students find that their work in Wikipedia is criticised or deleted because their instructor has given them little advice or even wrong advice on how to set about it. It's not your fault, but you can expect that editors will react as they will to any other editor who gets things wrong - sometimes helpfully, and sometimes pretty brusquely. I hope you can learn enough about Wikipedia to enjoy editing here and stay around after your coursework is completed: there's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey and a fabulous hobby. Pam D  15:08, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

File:Alice Stopford Green.jpeg
You have specified that this is your "Own work": Did you actually draw this yourself? Or did you photograph or scan a drawing by someone else? Wikipedia is very careful about the law of copyright. If you were confused and accidentally uploaded someone else's work as your own, please go back and remove it. Thanks. Pam D  15:21, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Alice Stopford Green (Project)


The article Alice Stopford Green (Project) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This article, a college project (as noted in an edit summary) duplicates the existing long-established article Alice Stopford Green. It has been misguidedly dumped into article space. I initially suggested a merge but then realised that no serious editor would be able to merge this content, totally lacking in inline references, into the existing solid, well-sourced, article. There is nothing to prevent the student who has worked on this college project from contributing the content, properly sourced, to expand and improve the existing article, but this "(Project)" has no place in the encyclopedia and should be deleted. I cannot find a "Speedy deletion" criterion which matches it: other eyes may be able to do so.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Pam D  09:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)


 * That article has now been deleted. Please help build the encyclopedia by adding any new, well-sourced, information about this lady to the existing article at Alice Stopford Green, where constructive contributions will be welcomed. I'm sorry your first "article" had to be deleted, but if this was a college project as you assert then your instructor seems to be to blame for not instructing you properly about how to contribute to the encyclopedia. You didn't answer my question above: What course, at which college? Pam  D  18:35, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Alice Stopford Green Project


Hello, Aljconway. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Alice Stopford Green Project".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Lakun.patra (talk) 06:48, 26 April 2016 (UTC)