User talk:Rwalker2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. A page you recently created, Student's explication of "cross" by Langston Hughes, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so it will shortly be removed (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests, and consider using the Article Wizard. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. Please don't post original essays or schoolwork on Wikipedia. See WP:NOR. NawlinWiki (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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December 2010
Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as Student's explication of "cross" by Langston Hughes, to Wikipedia, as doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article; you might also consider using the Article Wizard. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

I'm sure you meant well by sharing this, but Wikipedia is not a venue for publishing original research. Your student essay clearly falls into this category. Accordingly, I've gone ahead and removed it.

Please review the guidelines in the welcome message above, including the requirement that additions be backed up by reliable sources. You may also want to look at the Langston Hughes article as a guideline—you'll note that all claims throughout the article are backed up by citations to other sources, and none of the Wikipedia editors have introduced their own opinions or interpretations into the article. —C.Fred (talk) 21:12, 10 December 2010 (UTC)