User talk:Bellacounihan

July 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Australian Academy of Science National Committees has been reverted. Your edit here to Australian Academy of Science National Committees was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.science.org.au/commitee/antarctic-research, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/astronomy, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/biomedical-sciences, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/brain-and-mind, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/cellular-and-developmental-biology, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/chemistry, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/crystallography, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/data-science, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/earth-sciences, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/earth-system-science, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/ecology-evolution-and-conservation, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/geographical-sciences, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/history-and-philosophy-science, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/information-and-communication-sciences, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/materials-science-and-engineering, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/mathematical-sciences, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/mechanical-and-engineering-sciences, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/medicine-and-public-health, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/nutrition, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/physics, http://www.science.org.au/commitee/space-and-radio-science) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 06:19, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

New articles
You have done a lot of great work creating new articles. Unfortunately the WP:Meetup/Canberra/2014-08-14-Wikibomb project should have spent more time considering WP:PROF which is probably the relevant guideline concerning whether these topics are consided "notable". An article on a person must include sources showing the notability of the person (awards they have won; mentions in reliable sources). Many highly skilled and desirable people do not satisfy "notability" and articles on them will be deleted. That's regrettable, but firm handling of such cases is necessary to avoid many thousands of "articles" being added where the page is nothing more than a self-published resume. An unfortunate outcome is that articles on minor criminals and five-minute celebrities exist because reliable sources have written about them, whereas articles on good scientists might be deleted because sources have not noted them.

I'm hoping you can alert others in the project that significant effort will be required to keep the articles that have been added. I suggest focusing on that rather than creating new pages for the moment because there is a strong likelihood that a third of the current pages will be deleted in the coming days and weeks. There should be a central location for discussion on what might be done—the talk page of the wikibomb link above would be good. Johnuniq (talk) 01:38, 15 August 2014 (UTC)