User talk:Mlapoint

Welcome!
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Hello,, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 22:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
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...and some serious advice
I just deleted the article you created, Clan MacQuarrie, because the article gave no indication whatsoever on article subject's notability, and articles about people/bands/clubs/etc that don't have any assertions of notability get deleted according to our speedy deletion policy.

Don't be discouraged from recreating the article if it does have such information present, though.

In fact, as I recall, the article just said "Plan on seeing more, or contribute to this article." This is an admirable goal in itself, I admit that; however, this particular thing basically amounts to the article not having any content at all, which is another reason why some articles get deleted on sight.

So here's some advice I hope will be helpful: It is perfectly okay to plan an article, but please, if you go as far as creating the article, it's better to have at least some basic information down. You can then mark the article as a stub, and expand it further when you have time - or hope some other people do so. You can also use your own user space to make article to-do lists, store articles that aren't quite ready for the main article space, and so on.

So once again, happy to have you aboard, and happy editing =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 22:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

i am not sure i know what you mean by notability. Mlapoint 15:27, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

And another tip or two...
Please remember - Wikipedia has basically two kinds of pages, the ordinary pages and discussion pages (a.k.a. talk pages). The content pages are meant for content, and discussion pages are meant for all sorts of remarks on the article itself. So please put all comments on the state of the article to the talk pages. As a rule of thumb, if you ever put something on a page and then think of signing it, it's probably better to put it to the talk page.

Also, creating your first proper article is surprisingly difficult. I suggest you browse around Wikipedia and see how articles are generally formatted, and how the articles on related subjects are formatted. Checking out the Manual of Style is also highly recommended. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 22:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)