User talk:RichieRiot

AfD nomination of Lenny Thomas
An article that you have been involved in editing, Lenny Thomas, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you. PLease expand the article so that it might not be deleted. thanks. &Lambda;ua&int; Wi  se  (talk) 16:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:TLV 2006.jpg
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Speedy deletion of Sorry And The Sinatras
A tag has been placed on Sorry And The Sinatras requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of 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. 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.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (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 would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. JD554 (talk) 16:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

For future new pages
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your first few efforts- well, they probably haven't been received the way you hoped. I may not be the best person for this, since I haven't created any new pages myself, but I wanted to help.

First thing you need to do is make sure that your subject meets the notability guidelines, and that you can prove that. That means you will also need verifiable and reliable references. (Those links go to the policies, which explain what you need.) It can be pretty complicated, but Be Bold. If you have the references, but you're not sure how to format them, just put them in however you can- there are plenty of editors willing to help with formatting.

The other thing which might help you is a sandbox. You'll have noticed how quickly your Lenny Thomas article got tagged for deletion- people patrol the new pages looking for pages that don't belong, and pages without much content often get caught by them, so they don't get so much of a chance. This is where the sandbox comes in. If you go here you can create a sandbox in your userspace, which won't be patrolled and deleted in the same way that a normal article would. You can write your new page there, then when it's ready and referenced, just copy it into the main article space.

One other thing that might interest you is WP:ADOPT. This is a system that allows more experienced Wikipedians to help new users.

Finally, it helps on talk pages like this and the Articles for Deletion one if you sign your comments. You can do this by typing four tildes (~), like this: ~ at the end of your comment, and it will appear in the same format as mine is at the end of this section.

I hope that helps!

MorganaFiolett (talk) 18:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)