User talk:Karenh19

Speedy deletion nomination of Groups and Organizations


Hello. Recently, your article (Groups and Organizations) has been nominated for speedy deletion under the criteria A10; "Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic." In this case, your article duplicates Social group.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sexuality and Society


Hello. Recently, your article (Sexuality and Society) has been nominated for speedy deletion under the criterial A10; "Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic. In this case, your article duplicates Human sexuality. To tell you the truth, the English Wikipedia has almost 4 million articles; one of them probably already covers your topic if it is "basic information". Be sure to search for article with every possible keyword that you can think of before you are positive that the article does not exist yet.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you.

Status and Advice
All the above is part of our stamdard letters and notices; perhaps some more focussed advice might help you:

It is not really helpful adding yet another textbook to the long lists of cites for basic concepts in major articles. If it's a standard textbook, you could more appropriately add it to Additional Readings. Nor does it help to make minimal articles for topics already well covered in larger articles.

But what we really need are the addition of information about things that are poorly covered in Wikipedia articles, or new articles for the ones that are not covered at all. That would be immensely more helpful. to identify some articles that might need improvement, look at the list in the Category of sociology stub articles. Check the articles, and find the ones that a just one paragraph long and without any references or just one inadequate reference, and add some additional information from there For example, Social pyramid is so minimal that even a reference from a single textbook would help. When you add one, remove the "Unreferenced: tag  and add a tag for  . If you needfurther help, ask me on my talk p. -- add see WP:FIRST for some general information.   DGG ( talk ) 00:16, 24 February 2012 (UTC)