User talk:Edench

June 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Penn Skates. Advertising, and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox", is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. R andom H umanoid ( &rArr; ) 22:11, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Your note on the skating rink page
I've deleted the page, but wanted to respond personally to the issues you've raised. First, Wikipedia isn't a "good ol' boys club". You are most welcome to contribute here, its just that you need to remember that we're trying to be a world-class encyclopedia, not just a random collection of information. In order to get to that level of quality, we have to have policies and guidelines. I'm sorry you think they're harsh, they're really not, but they are crafted with one specific goal in mind, that is to create a quality encyclopedia. While the rink's article was tagged as spam, I didn't delete it for that, as I could clearly see it wasn't. It was deleted for simply being non-notable. In otherwords, the article didn't claim that the rink was of any specific notability that meets our guidelines. There are thousands on rinks in towns big and small. For a rink to be listed, there needs to be something truly significant about it that is covered by other independent sources, like mainstream media. If your aim was just to write about this one rink, I'm sorry to have discoursged you. If you are really interested in writing articles that would contribute to this being a better encyclopedia, I would be happy to point you in some directions where articles are badly needed, or where existing articles need to be improved. And, to help you understand things better, I'll drop a welcome message below that has links to how we do things around here. Questions? Click on the "Speaketh" after my name.  AK Radecki Speaketh  03:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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