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Circumference and Area of Circles
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Your contributed article, Circumference and Area of Circles
Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Circumference and Area of Circles. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Circle. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Circle - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, 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. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 14:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Ckpuppers, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Circumference and Area of Circles, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 16:55, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
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Your article
Hi. Welcome, again. Your article has been deleted, as explained just above, because it didn't add anything to our existing article Circle; but there was another problem - you copied it from this website which carries a copyright notice "©2010 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company." You must not copy material into Wikipedia; underneath the edit box it says "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted." Even if a website has not got an explicit copyright warning, it is very unlikely that content is available to be copied here - see WP:Copyrights for more information.

There is another problem with that web-site - what it says is not clear and in some places actually WRONG! If that's the sort of stuff in About.com, I would advise you to use Wikipedia instead - see Circle and Pi and other articles linked from them. There may be more detail than you want, but you can skip that.
 * Pi is not "equal to 3.14" - it is only approximately equal to that. It is nearer to 3.14159 but that is still only approximate.
 * "The circumference... is the actual length around the circle which is equal to 360°" - 360° is an angle, not a length.
 * "Pi is greek and has been around for over 2000 years!" Pi is a Greek letter, but "has been around for over 2000 years" doesn't mean much - (a) the ratio of the circumference to the diameter has been the same forever, (b) the Egyptians knew about it 4,500 years ago, see Numerical approximations of π, (c) the Greek letter π has only been used for this ratio since about 1700 - see Pi.
 * It's not very clearly set out, either - the diagram refers to the centre as point "O" but it isn't labelled "O", and if they can't actually use the Greek letter π it would be better to use "pi" than "p".

Don't be discouraged - the links in the Welcome paragraph above will tell you more about contributing. WP:Your first article is particularly helpful. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)