User talk:Boxer Rescue

=== A tag has been placed on The Carroll Mansion, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Giles Bennett (Talk, Contribs) 20:20, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

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Did you keep a backup of the entry? If you have, post it here and I'll see what can be rewritten to make it clear that it's not an advert, and that a historic mansion which was the home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is notable enough for an encyclopedia entry (and rather more notable than many that you'll find here). --Paularblaster (talk) 01:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * People are constantly putting up articles about themselves, their friends, their businesses for promotional reasons (or just for a laugh), so anything that isn't obviously important does tend to get deleted very rapidly. But this is a fantastic article! I can't for the life of me understand why it was deleted. I'm just sad it's under my name now instead of yours. One thing: people scanning the log of newly created articles to purge self-promotion will be instantly suspicious of a first-time contributor who hasn't got a user page (the username shows up red instead of blue). If you intend to create more articles, you can make your own userpage by clicking on User:Boxer_Rescue and following the instructions. A page to work on articles until you've got them looking good enough not to be deleted by the over-zealous can be made in the same way by clicking on User:Boxer_Rescue/Sandbox --Paularblaster (talk) 03:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This is my first time on Wikipedia and certainly my first time trying to create a page. I did create an account, however, I apparently did something wrong. How is it that you were able to get my article (with a few of your own additions) posted?


 * Did you indent the paragraphs with spaces?

If you did (like this) it looks bizarre and that might be why they failed to recognize the valid content of the article.


 * The main thing is that it has to look and sound like an encyclopedia article. To create a user page to go with your account, just click on "user page" in red at the top here, and fill in whatever you like in the edit box that comes up. When you save it, that will be your user page. You can edit it any way you like. --Paularblaster (talk) 03:55, 26 November 2007 (UTC)