User talk:Dgifford99

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Your article Spablum
Hello. I have tagged the article you created titled "spablum" because it does not meet a number of important criteria for a valid Wikipedia article. Wikipedia's policy page "Avoid neologisms" states that neologisms and protologisms (newly-created words) are not acceptable on Wikipedia unless they can be backed up by reliable sources. A quick search on Google for the term returns just four results, two of which are the result of the word "pablum" running together with a preceding word ending in "s", and two of which appear to be someone's name or handle. A genuine computing-related term should return a lot more results from a simple Google search. Don't be discouraged that your first contribution to Wikipedia is being proposed for deletion; take the time to familiarise yourself with Wikipedia's guidelines (linked in the above welcome message) on what is an acceptable subject for an article. Thank you. ~Matticus TC 19:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)