User talk:MAOffer

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Hello, MAOffer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Jesse Jack Hooper, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: 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 have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 07:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Jesse Jack Hooper


A tag has been placed on Jesse Jack Hooper requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 07:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Apology
Welcome to Wikipedia I am sorry that your page was tagged for deletion so quickly. Wikipedia gets new articles at a rate of rather more than one a minute, and a very high proportion are unsuitable, so the encyclopedia is only kept usable by the efforts of the volunteer "New Page Patrol", and several types of unsatisfactory entries may be speedily deleted by an administrator. Among these are "articles" which contain no text, only images or links, but it is normal practice to wait at least 10-15 minutes before tagging those, to see whether more appears.

As three hours have gone by, I have deleted the page, but please do write an article about Jessie Jack Hooper. A good way to take your time without the risk of premature deletion is to click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the name of your article: that will create a draft page where you can develop the article, with a link to useful advice and a "Submit" button for when the article is ready.

It is worth reading WP:Your first article before you start. I also advise you to read Copy-paste. It is tempting to copy in text from websites like the one you linked to, but copyright is a serious issue for Wikipedia, and minor rewording is not enough to avoid a copyright violation.

You may be interested in WP:WikiProject Wisconsin, a group of users interested in Wisconsin articles.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:22, 17 May 2012 (UTC)