User talk:Laavanya Koushik

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Proposed deletion of Course of a river


The article Course of a river has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This article serves only as a definition, and unless there is some importance in maritime scholarship of which I am unaware, is unlikely to have anything more to say than a simple definition of a term.

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. Huadpe (talk) 05:49, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

October 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with Course of a river. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. Huadpe (talk) 06:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Course of a river


The article Course of a river has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This article serves only as a definition, and unless there is some importance in maritime scholarship of which I am unaware, is unlikely to have anything more to say than a simple definition of a term.

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. Huadpe (talk) 06:03, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Laavanya – I'm afraid User:Huadpe has made a mistake on this, and ought not to have reverted your removal of the deletion tag on the article, nor have warned you about it. I've therefore struck out the warning, and left a message on Huadpe's talk page.


 * If you still disagree with the deletion proposal, you can remove the notice again, and it cannot be replaced. However, it will then be open to other users to propose deletion through the articles for deletion (AfD) process instead.  I hope that you won't be offended if I say that I think the article does need deletion anyway, and I would be very surprised if it survived AfD. You may find it easier to leave it to be deleted on this occasion.


 * A few other points:
 * User signatures should not be used in articles, only on talk pages. The article's edit history keeps a record of who has contributed what.
 * Generally article titles should not be phrases but simple nouns – in this case for example it might be "Course (river)".
 * It's worth checking that the material for a new article is not already included elsewhere – in this case the existing article River does cover it well. Have a look at Your first article for more.
 * You may find it worth taking a little more care with grammar and typography – for example, "it's" is a contraction of "it is", and the possessive of "it" is "its". I also notice you sometimes miss out spaces.
 * If you begin a line with a space, the formatting is turned off for the whole paragraph

like this.
 * There is a mechanism for in-line references – I won't bother to explain it here, but have a look at Inline citation, or look carefully at what other editors have done.


 * Finally, please don't feel discouraged – new editors are very welcome on Wikipedia, and I'm sure you'll be able to make many useful contributions here. Richard New Forest (talk) 10:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)