User talk:AllanTong

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Hello AllanTong, and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope that you have enjoyed contributing and want to stick around. Here are some tips to help you get started: If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code ; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 09:16, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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Talkback
Chevy monte  carlo  16:31, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
Chevy monte  carlo  - alt 07:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
I replied and made a suggestion about the article's name. Please head over to my talk page to check it out. Also I can please ask that you add any new messages for me to the bottom of the talk page - you can click the 'add a new section' tab at the top of the page to do this quite easily. It just helps me to find the new messages :) Also, don't forget to sign with the four tildes ( ~ ). Thanks. Chevy  monte  carlo  19:59, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Scenario - A Journal for Drama and Theatre Pedagogy
A tag has been placed on Scenario - A Journal for Drama and Theatre Pedagogy requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Crusio (talk) 13:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Status and Advice
I'm one of the admins who specialize in dealing with articles about academic journals and institutions, so let me offer you some advice. I've looked at your appeal. The copyright problems can be dealt with: you must explicitly license the rights to the material according to our licensing using the CC-BY-SA and the GNU  licenses, as explained in WP:COPYRIGHT and WP:Donating copyrighted materials ; be aware that these  give everyone in the world an irrevocable license to reuse and alter the material, even for commercial purposes. The simplest way of doing this is to place a CC 3.0 / GNU license on the web page for the journal; the other way, as explained there, is for the copyright owner to write to OTRS, also as explained there. .

But a more fundamental problem  is that I doubt that  by our standards it will be easy to show that the journal is notable. It does not appear in any of the standard indexes; it is almost uncited, as judged by google scholar. The positive factor is that it is listed in the catalogs of several hundred US libraries ; this is difficult to evaluate for free e-journals, because some libraries do include all of the ones they can find, but it is nonetheless enough to show it's respectable. If you can get it indexed, or if people write about it in published sources, then do resubmit the article, and I shall try to defend it if challenged; I am not sure I see the point of doing so otherwise. You are welcome to try, but remember that, with respect to the intrinsic value of the journal, or the need to publicize it, or it being an under-represented field -- none of these count here.

Some general information follows:

Based on what is generally accepted here, an article about a journal should    contain:
 * 1) Fulll titles, earlier titles used, and the corresponding dates. Make cross references from any variant titles.
 * 2) Standard abbreviations used--make redirects from them.
 * 3) publishing & sponsoring body, as well as earlier publishers & sponsors
 * 4) no. of articles published a year
 * 5) ISSNs for both print and online versions
 * 6) Online availability of current and earlier issues
 * 7) Open access availability, if relevant.
 * 8) coverage in major standard indexes, inclding particularly Scopus and Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
 * 9) any actual references providing substantial coverage from  3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases.
 * 10) External links to the journal's main web site, and, if relevant, the main website of the sponsoring body.

It should not contain
 * 1) General information listing all the fields covered, unless it is not obvious from the title
 * 2) Statements of praise for the journal -- see WP:PEACOCK
 * 3) A list of those on the editorial board
 * 4) names of the staff, except editors in chief; subordinate or section editors should not usually be listed.
 * 5) Information about how to submit articles
 * and, most important, it must contain no text from the web page description of the journal. That is a copyright violation, and needs to be rewritten. Even if you are prepared to donate copyright according to WP:DCM, it is likely to be unsuitably promotional.

Please read our WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide. As it specifies there, the best way to start is by using   the infobox journal template; but also convert the information there  to prose.  DGG ( talk ) 18:57, 16 September 2010 (UTC)