User talk:Kermalli

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Proposed deletion of PLR Biostatistics


The article PLR Biostatistics has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * this is not an encyclopedia article; it outlines a proposed study, cites no sources and seems to be original research. It envisages using a "Wikipedia-like" format for the results of the proposed study, but Wikipedia itself is not a web-host for this kind of thing.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing  will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JohnCD (talk) 17:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Advice
Welcome, once again, to Wikipedia, though I am afraid what I have to say may seem unwelcoming. Wikipedia is a collaborative project to build an encyclopedia, and that is all it is. In order the achieve that, there is a long list of things that Wikipedia is not, one of which is Wikipedia is not a web host.

I am not clear what it is you hope to do with your article PLR Biostatistics - it seems to describe a project that you are about to undertake, and to be in the nature of a public notice or prospectus. I have proposed it for deletion because it is not an encyclopedia article, we are not a notice-board, and one of our fundamental principles is that we publish No Original Research - this is not a place for first publication of anything new.

I read that you intend the results of your study to be in a "Wikipedia-like" format, but Wikipedia itself would not be suitable, or willing, to host it - among other issues, you would not be able to control the content of anything you put in, because any article can be edited by anyone. The answer may be to set up your own wiki, using the free MediaWiki software which can be installed on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X - see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki and particularly http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide and Wiki Science/How to start a Wiki; alternatively, you may be able to use one of the many other public wikis. There is also Wikiversity - I'm afraid I know little about that, but it could be worth investigating.

The welcome paragraph above will tell you more about Wikipedia and how to contribute: there are also useful articles at WP:School and university projects and User:Jbmurray/Advice. If you have any questions, please ask them below here: I will watch this talk page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:49, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Article moved to user space
As you suggested, I have moved the article to a page in your user space at User:Kermalli/PLR Biostatistics. I am still unsure how this is ever going to be an encyclopedia article, and you should read Ownership and editing of pages in the user space, particularly "material that does not somehow further the goals of the project may be removed", but for the moment at least you can develop it there. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)