User talk:Parslad

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A tag has been placed on A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. 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.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Blanchardb 19:25, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Subpage
OKay. I have created a subpage for you here with the text of the article. When you are ready to post it in a more complete form, you can do so by moving it to the correct title, which preserves the page's edit history. If you need help with the article for any reason, including how to properly place footnote references, please do not hesitate to stop by my talk page. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 23:10, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Avoiding deletion of work in progress
Regarding your question on the help desk, people tend to be stricter about applying guidelines and policies about articles posted to the article namespace. If you are working on an article, it might be a good idea to do what I do. Start the article in your userspace and move it when you've come to a point you're confident it will not get deleted. underconstruction tags help too. - Mgm|(talk) 07:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

What About...
If you put a fact into an article about Brian Marshall and then YOU delete it for no reason without even putting a 'citation needed' tag there? What should I do then? --216.17.75.89 (talk) 18:14, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Your 'fact' was unreferenced and closely resembles the vandalism you have been responsible for in other articles today. If this fact is true then please add a reference. Parslad (talk) 18:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Yfcad
Hi - I'm going to ignore your request for speedy deletion on Yfcad for a little while... I think you were a little quick on the trigger, since the article was less than one minute old. I'll re-evaluate it later. - Philippe 04:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Monitor. WikiProject Poland Newsletter: Issue 1 (April 2011)
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 21:20, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Getting Wikimedians to the Olympic Games
Hi. I am part of an effort to get Wikimedians access to the 2016 Summer Olympics as accredited reporters and photographers. Part of this effort includes covering the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Two Wikimedians have credentials to attend these games as reporters through Wikimedia Australia. As English Wikipedia does not allow original reporting, this is largely through Wikinews with a project page found at Wikinews:Paralympic Games. If you are interested in helping to get Wikimedians to the next Summer Olympics,I'd encourage you to assist with Wikinews efforts, and also to work on all language 2012 Summer Paralympic Wikipedia articles before, during and after the Games to demonstrate a track record of success. Thank you. --LauraHale (talk) 04:26, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland
I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Czarni Radom
Considering that you are the only person I can relate to when it comes to Polish sports, I have a new user here who wrote the above article. He would like to know if he did it right. Can you check for proper translation and copyvios (if any exist).--Mishae (talk) 20:15, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon, May 2015
Hey there! As a Wikipedian in Scotland I thought you might be interested in the Scottish Fairground Culture editathon taking place on 7 May at the Riverside Museum - drop me a line if you'd like to know more, or if you'd be interested in taking part remotely! Lirazelf (talk) 11:27, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh dear, linkfail! Here's the correct one... Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon Lirazelf (talk) 09:56, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Invitation to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)