User talk:New york guy

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Redwolf24 (Talk) 23:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I like messages :-P

Another welcome
Hi there! I take it you attended St. Mark's. I am actually a Hockaday alumna myself. The Greenhill article was deleted because it failed to establish more than local notability (whether it is possible to establish notability for Greenhill is another question). Wikipedia is not paper and so can have entries on obscure topics most other encyclopedias cannot cover, but whether those entries are helpful or not is another matter. Because students from all over write generic entries on their particular school that add no unique information that couldn't be said about any American school, school-related articles tend to be easy deletion candidates. See for instance WikiProject Schools, which is trying to monitor school articles and set guidelines for good school articles.

I hope you can help out on the St. Mark's article, as not many Marksmen have been at it. By the way, you can insert a link to articles in wikipedia by simply adding  around the article title instead of inserting the URL. Try it out in the sandbox, which is fun to play around in, or on your user page, where you get to tell people about yourself if you like. --Laura Scudder | Talk 15:24, 5 August 2005 (UTC)