User talk:Elk273

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Hello, Elk273, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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Content forking
Regarding your recent creation of the article about Richard Avedis Hagopian: Wikipedia already has an article about Richard Hagopian, which you knew since you included a link to that article in your list of external links. I have to wonder why you would then create an entirely new article on the same topic? Doing so is considered a "content fork", and is discouraged as there should only be a single article that editors maintain on any given subject. If you have information that you would like to add to the existing article, please feel free to do so (keeping in mind Wikipedia's policies on verifiability by reliable sources). For now, I have redirected your new page to the existing page. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Greek-American School of Astoria


A tag has been placed on Greek-American School of Astoria, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous 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 guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.

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