User talk:RJOSEPHHOFFMANN

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do not delete tags
Please do not delete tags placed on your page (unless the text of the tag says you can do so). You deleted the db-empty tag I placed on your page. That could be considered vandalism and lead to your being banned. If you have an issue with the tag you can add a hang-on tag (explained in the tag I added to your page). And you can add a reason on the talk page of the article for why it should not be deleted. Thanks Brian 21:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)btball

AfD
I have listed the article R. Joseph Hoffmann for deletion under WP's deletion criteria, feel free to visit the link on the article page to comment on whether the article should be retained. Carlossuarez46 01:04, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Please see comments on CSER talk page
Your article is starting to meet the Wikipedia standars (IMHO) - but still reads a bit like an advert. Rather than add additional tags at this time I've added comments on the article talk page. If you want help, you can contact me at my talk page. If the article remains unchanged, I'll tag it with my concerns (reads like an advert and doesn't cite independent sources). Nice progress so far. Brian 11:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)btball

Categorization
I fixed the categorization --- what you had were not valid Wikipedia categories. You can preview a page and see if what you've put comes up in red - in which case it doesn't exist in Wikipedia. I also did some minor additional linking - that makes it a little better of an article (just link to a name or term the first time it appears in the article, it doens't help to have the same word linked multiple times). I also checked "what links here" - not much. But this page Council for Secular Humanism, which links to your page, has a lot of links to it. If any of the pages that link to that page should also link to yours, you might want to go add the links. I don't know enough about this topic to be able to do that for you though ... Brian 14:56, 30 June 2006 (UTC)btball

Sources and references
It looks like there are external sources, such as the NPR radio segments mentioned on the CSER website that could be worth mentioning in something like a see also category. Again, I don't know enough about this topic to do this myself, nor did I find the external sources very easy to track down (on your site, the NPR was an MP3 file rather than a link back to the NPR site). It would make this a better article (and less promotional) if you add in some external / independent references. If you have the references and need help with the linking or formatting, let me know - just leave a note on my talk page. Brian 15:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)btball