User talk:Barbaraapreston

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I have articles I would like to post from my days as a newspaper reporter. I typed one in as a test. (It's a real article). The subject of my article -- Dr. Orrin Pilkey -- has a Wikipedia page. My question is, should my newspaper article appear as a link on his page? Or, should it appear under the article subject, which is "Beach Erosion."

Thanks for any guidance you can offer. Barbaraapreston (talk) 13:50, 10 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Barbara, difficult to say but most likely under the article's subject. Could you post a link please? Have a look at citing sources for information on including information from your article into a Wikipedia article.-- Carbon Rodney 15:18, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

The article is not posted yet. Try this link: 15:24, 10 January 2012 (diff | hist) User talk:Barbaraapreston ‎ (→Welcome!) (top)

Sorry: Here is the link to the article. It is waiting for review to be published: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Beach_Protection:_A_Losing_Battle


 * Hi Barbara, Oh I see; do you want to post your news article as a Wikipedia article? Even though we call them articles here (or sometimes pages), they aren't real articles they are more like 'Encyclopedia entries' and we have some rules regarding what is and isn't allowed. In this case, WP:NOT explains that we don't do news articles at all: Wikinews does that :) If you'd like to contribute here, then maybe read over Beach nourishment as there is quite a lot of uncited claims there which your article might be able to support. -- Carbon Rodney 16:20, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Beach Protection: A Losing Battle concern
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Your article submission Beach Protection: A Losing Battle


Hello Barbaraapreston. It has been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Beach Protection: A Losing Battle.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 17:02, 29 September 2013 (UTC)