User talk:Lrauworth

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Hello, Lrauworth, 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 messages on talk 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! WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:06, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
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Your article was the third that I found in 10 minutes regarding Luther College residence halls. Are you working on a school project? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:06, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes it is. We had to create Wiki pages for our Ethics and Technology class to compare what it was like to make a wiki compared to just posting on Facebook or Twitter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lrauworth (talk • contribs)
 * Perhaps your professor failed to inform you that your articles on Wikipedia would need to meet notability guidelines, among other things. If you can give me your instructor's Wikipedia name, I can contact them directly.  WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:16, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikipedia, Lrauworth! You have learned something, so this exercise has been useful for you, if not very helpful for Wikipedia. What you have found out is that, unlike those other sites where people can write more or less whatever they want, Wikipedia is a serious project to build an encyclopedia; anyone can edit, but if what they contribute does not conform to the encyclopedia's standards, other users will amend or remove it. In particular, Wikipedia is selective about article subjects: they need to have Notability, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? See WP:42. It is very unlikely that a college hall of residence will be notable in this sense - in fact that is #4 on the List of bad article ideas.


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 * Please ask your instructor to look at School and university projects. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:16, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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