User talk:Iameatingjam

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Hello,, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! KenWalker | Talk 04:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
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Nigel ford
A tag has been placed on Nigel ford, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Nigel ford is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Nigel ford. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. You might also want to read our general biography criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that admins should wait a while for you to assert his/her/their notability, please affix the template  to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion. It is also a very good idea to add citations from reliable sources to ensure that your article will be verifiable. ~ PseudoSudo 05:52, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I have deleted it twice now. Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Academic Challenger 06:30, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Qualicum Beach - Youth section
Hello Iameatingjam! Thanks for adding some content to the Qualicum Beach article. Although there are some Wikipedia traditions that require a bit of a tune up in what you have added, what you have started here is useful and interesting. Since it is your idea, I thought I would see if I could help you with it. It is a great idea, so it is worth doing. What do you think? The way to respond by the way, it to click on the talk link next to my signature and the new topic thing in the tool bar.

Anyway, there are two things that strike me about your work. Firstly, there is a possible error in the way you have worded it. The population statistics in the article say that 38% are over 65. That is not a majority, but it is nearly 3 times the provincial average. That means that we can't say "with the vast majority of the population being senior citizens" It needs some tweaking. Little thing, but it needs some tuning up.

But there is a bigger thing. In the Welcome message I added at the top of your talk page, there are links to various Wikipedia policies and help text (sorry if this is stuff you already know) and especially, for what you have put together the part about Neutral point of view and Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. The idea of orginal thought is that this is not a place for our own opinions, or for issues we want to advance. It is supposed to all be verifiable stuff. It is an encylopedia, a collection of knowledge that is all based on other sources. So what does this mean for your section? Well, it means that we have to state the facts, state where we found them and not our opinions. For example, "Qualicum Beach sucks because there is nothing good for young people to do" (just an example, what you wrote was much better than that) may be true, but it is not a neutral point of view and it is not stated in a way that is verifiable. It is not a place to go out and do our own original research. What all this means is that even though you and I both agree with what you have said, that there is not enough here for youth, we need to find something somewhere that proves it, something that we can refer to. It could be a newspaper article, but it needs to be something that verifies what the article says. If we can't verify it, we have to delete it.

Anyway, I am going on too long here, but I wanted to welcome you, encourage your help with this article but help you find some of these ideas. Hope that is all ok. If you have any questions, go ahead and ask, I am happy to help. Cheers. KenWalker | Talk 05:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)