User talk:Anne Elizabeth

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Thanks for your recent, useful edits -- you're off to a great start!.

Deletions: I appreciate the effort you put into reviewing Vertissage and commenting on its talk page before nominating it for speedy deletion. I wish more people made that sort of effort before pulling the deletion trigger (especially with newcomer's first articles). Take a look at Proposed deletion. This form of deletion (sometime referred to as "PROD") is a little more deliberate and gives the article's creator 5 days to fix an article. These articles get tagged using the tag.

Speedy deletion is almost like a summary execution on Wikipedia. If you tag an article this way, it can be gone in just a minute or two -- before you even finish putting something on the article's talk page (in fact, it will often get deleted without anyone even bothering to read your comments on the talk page). If there's every any doubt at all, don't use speedy deletion; if it has even  a sliver of potential merit (sufficient to justify a 30-second Google search, for instance), PROD affords a more deliberate review. (In Vertissage's case, someone else pulled your speedy deletion tag off just before the hangman open the trapdoor.)

Also, if the author is a brand-new contributor (as this article's author was), there's value in giving them 5 days and a little coaching. I try to help newcomers who post new articles. They're usually pretty dodgy on the first go-round but if the author's really interested in the article, they can bring it up to something usable. Also, seeing your first article killed in a flash is very demotivating. If nothing else, I suggest putting a brief one-sentence courtesy comment on the author's talk page letting them know what you did and encouraging them going into the future.

Anyway, keep up the good work. Once again, welcome and thank you. --A. B. 11:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence Venuti and other translators
Hi Anne Elizabeth, a fellow translator welcomes you. I have just created the article about Lawrence Venuti, and linked your asked article of Friedrich Schleiermacher. You may contribute with these and other translation stubs. Regards from Uruguay, Fadesga (talk) 16:06, 19 October 2010 (UTC)