User talk:Scribe014

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May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Izabela Ratajczak, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.
 * Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
 * Cluebot produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Izabela Ratajczak was changed by Scribe014 (u) (t) blanking the page on 2010-05-06T10:06:54+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 10:06, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Izabela Ratajczak
Welcome, again. First, don't worry about the warning immediately above: page blanking is a regrettably common form of vandalism and Cluebot is an automatic system which detects and reverts it. Blanking by the author is allowed and is taken as a request to delete. (I thought Cluebot was intelligent enough to recognise blanking by author, but it seems not).

In regard to your article: first, you have no need to apologise, Wikipedia has rather a learning curve, and your article was very much better that most from new authors. (Not uncommon type: "Tommy is awesome LOL!!!") Its problems were: There is more detail at WP:Notability (people), and good general advice about writing Wikipedia articles at WP:Your first article. If you can find references to establish notability and to confirm what the article says, by all means put it in again. If you like, I can "userfy" it - restore a copy into your user space for you to work on. You can reply below here - I will watch this page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:48, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Verifiability, one of Wikipedia's fundamental principles, and of particular importance for biographies of living persons. "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth&mdash;whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." Your article listed three references, but as far as I could see none of them mentioned Ms Ratajczak, so they did nothing to verify the statements in the article.
 * Notability, a requirement to have a Wikipedia article, which is not a matter of opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and press releases. The point is that we don't decide who or what is interesting or important enough for an article; we ask the easier question, have other people, independent of the subject, found it/her/him interesting and important enough to comment on?