User talk:Hdking

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Hello, Hdking, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Newington Green. 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! BrainyBabe (talk) 08:34, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Newington Green
Thank you for your recent attention to Newington Green. I will make some general points about that article on its talk page. Here, I'd like to draw your attention to a few points about Wikipedia that I hope will make your editing easier and more productive. Firstly, it really helps if everyone writes an edit summary, so other editors can quickly see what each change is about. Secondly, external links are generally discouraged within articles (although they may be appropriate in an "External links" section at the end of the article).

Finally, I noticed that you added a lot from the NGAG website. Wikipedia has strong guidelines about reliable sources, and sites such as NGAG are generally not acceptable, except in self-reference. For example, the NGAG website could be used to cite the assertion that the group was founded in 1979, but not that the green used to be "just a large, leafy traffic island" -- for that you would need an independent source, such as a newspaper.

Good luck in your editing, and if you need any help, please drop me a line on my talk page. BrainyBabe (talk) 10:14, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Newington Green Unitarian Church
Thank you for your recent attention to Newington Green Unitarian Church. I have reverted your edits, for the reason explained in the edit summary. Please note, as above, that external links are not normally allowed in the text: External links states "Wikipedia articles may include links to web pages outside Wikipedia (external links), but they should not normally be used in the body of an article."

It has occurred to me, from your edits, that perhaps you would like to create an article on the Newington Green Action Group? If you think that it is a subject notable under the rules of this encyclopedia, then I would be happy to support you in creating your first article. You might wish to read:
 * Notability, and
 * Your first article, especially the section on Local interest articles, from which:
 * These are articles about places like schools, or streets that are of interest to a relatively small number of people such as alumni or people who live nearby. There is no consensus about such articles, but some will challenge them if they include nothing that shows how the place is special and different from tens of thousands of similar places. Photographs add interest. Try to give local-interest articles local colour. Third-party references are very useful to prove that the subject you are writing about is notable.

If you need any help with your editing, please drop me a line. BrainyBabe (talk) 07:27, 26 October 2010 (UTC)