User talk:Djm1339

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Hello, Djm1339, 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 Dummy file, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Dummy file and Dummy data
I merged the two articles together. It's not necessary to create two separate titles for what is essentially the same concept. Doing so makes it difficult for readers to find information, makes the maintenance of the two articles more difficult for wikipedia editors, and does little to add to the encyclopedia. Instead, try to consolidate the information into a single article like this when possible. For a trivial example, we don't have articles about Red cars, Black cars, and Blue cars, but we do have one about Cars. For a more natural example, we put words like the in the English articles page, which handles a variety of words.

On that point, I'm not sure really if this topic is notable enough for a stand-alone article. It's really just a basic concept in information systems or data even. I'm not exactly sure which it should go in, but perhaps you should look to integrate this information into existing pages rather than create it as a new article.

In any case it remains for now and I cleaned up some of the formatting. Good luck on wiki. Shadowjams (talk) 05:09, 17 February 2012 (UTC)