User talk:MGalder

August 2012
Please do not write an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Graham Alder. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:39, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Graham Alder


A tag has been placed on Graham Alder requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. 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. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, MGalder, 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 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! JohnCD (talk) 15:04, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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How to draft an article in your user space
I have deleted your article, which said only "still editing". We prefer not to have "watch this space" articles in the encyclopedia, so articles posted with no content may be speedily deleted. If you want to take your time over developing an article, you can do it in your sandbox, or you can go to Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title: that will create a draft page in your user space, where you can work on the article in your own time, with a link to useful advice, and a "Submit" button to send it to WP:Articles for creation where an experienced user will look at it, and either it will be accepted or you will be given feedback.

I should add that Wikipedia is not a place like Myspace, Facebook or LinkedIn for people to write about themselves. It is a quite different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles, and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Autobiography.

The links in the Welcome message above will tell you more about Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 15:04, 2 August 2012 (UTC)