User talk:Minpin75

Notability of Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana)
A tag has been placed on Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Meldshal42  (talk)  01:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page North Shore Square has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: 'tinypic\.com' (link(s): http://tinypic.com" http://i32.tinypic.com/5kemft.jpg" http://tinypic.com" http://i27.tinypic.com/33nyuxd.jpg" http://tinypic.com" http://i31.tinypic.com/14smova.jpg" http://tinypic.com" http://i26.tinypic.com/2928f9i.jpg"). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image or a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 02:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana)‎
Hi Minpin75

Welcome to Wikipedia. Guess what: this article, as currently written, is an advertisement for Southland Mall and this establishes a reason to delete it. it is advertising or other spam without relevant content. You see, some of us shell out money to keep this online encyclopedia going so it helps to educate school children and the like, and it make us a little crazy when someone comes along and plonks down an advertisement, like I'm paying for a billboard so that other people can plug their stuff. I know, no one ever told you. Well, now you've been told, and you have time to fix this.Take a look at how other malls are written up and revise this puppy.

In a day or two I'm going to look at the article. If it still reads like an advertisement, I'm going to propose that it should be deleted. That won't happen right off, but it will initiate a discussion where other editors of Wikipedia will look at the article and offer their opinions. If the opinions lean toward deletion, it will be deleted. That takes two or three or five days, and you can fix it any time during that period. If the time comes, an administrator, and not me, will pull the plug on it. But I'd rather you fix it. Other people have written about malls without trying to sell stuff. You can too. Thanks. Gosgood (talk) 12:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana), please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana) appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana) has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana) and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana) with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana).

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Gosgood (talk) 15:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Additional remarks
It has been over a week since I left my remark, above (Re: Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana)). Apart from a small typo fix you really haven't addressed my main concern: you are employing Wikipedia as an advertising billboard for Southland Mall. In the course of reviewing the page today, I discovered a compound problem — you've copied and pasted text from the mall's website. As noted on every edit page, when you add content to Wikipedia, this notice is posted : ''' Do not copy text from other websites without a GFDL-compatible license. It will be deleted. .''' It's in large black letters, somewhat like what I have reproduced here, and it stands on its own line. Rather hard to miss.

I've nominating the page for speedy deletion under criterion CSD-12 "Blatant Copyright Infringement" because it appears to me a word-for-word copy of another website page. While I've posted the page as such, it will not be deleted immediately. An administrator will review the page and consider the following points:
 * The material was copied from another website or other source (but consider the possibility that the other copy was obtained from Wikipedia—see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks);
 * Given that the article is about ten days old, this seems most unlikely
 * There is no non-infringing content on either the page itself, or in the history, worth saving;
 * The entire body of the article constitutes the infringement. Outside of that, all that remains are cleanup tags, links, and a mostly not-filled-out info box.
 * The material was introduced at once by a single person; and
 * By you, on June 17, with this edit.
 * There is no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a free license (see also List of countries' copyright length as a guide).
 * I've not found any such notice on the mall web site.

Since this review may very well take a day or two, you can fix the problem easily by going to the article page and pasting hangon below the speedy deletion tag that I've placed on the article page and leaving a note to administrators and other editors on the article talk page oncerning why the article should be saved. To my mind, if you have credible information, verifiable through public media such as county and local newspapers, as to the significance of the mall, economic impact, human interest, you should just rewrite the article immediately and dispense with the advertising copy from the mall website. That would address my concerns in one fell swoop and I'd rest my case without further argument. I've nothing against mall articles in particular, so long as they cover the significance they bring to a local community, and editors find that interesting enough to write about it in a credible way. Take care. Gosgood (talk) 15:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Clearview Mall (Louisiana)
I have nominated Clearview Mall (Louisiana), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Clearview Mall (Louisiana). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 01:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)