User talk:Sparkles102

Hi. Please don't post copyrighted material. Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 03:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Advertising
I have blocked you briefly for spamming. -- RHaworth 03:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Dear RHaworth, Re Hockey Ministries International. I followed Wikipedia's guidelines for external links. I am not trying to spam, which I think is a form of advertising. I followed the format also of a few articles already on wikipedia, such as: Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action. I am not using Wikipedia as a vehicle for adverstising as some say, I am just writing an article like others about a topic. Please allow me to post this article. Thank you, Sparkles102


 * I find Seraphimblade's comment above a bit confusing: external links were the least problem with the article. Things that contributed to its deletion were:
 * straight copy of this article and therefore a copyright violation
 * single-purpose account - the creator of the article had no previous edit history so one automatically assumes they are only here to promote the subject of their article
 * blind persistence - as far as I can see you simply kept re-posting the article - there was no attempt to tone-down the content or explain why it was not a copyvio
 * sock puppetry - the last posting of the article was by user:Hopperlled even though the block on your Id had expired some hours before
 * tone of the article - reads too much like an advert. For example every event that HMI sets up is to give people an opportunity to hear the Gospel of Christ - on Wikipedia we just say "Christian mission". Also the article was about twice as long as one would expect for a new article on this sort of subject.
 * only one incoming link to the article
 * no references - there should be one external link to the main HMI site but two or three links to 3rd party sites (eg. news media) which establish the notability of the organisation.
 * I admit we may have been a bit hard on you, so what you need to do is:
 * Get User:Malard to add a note to Talk:Hockey Ministries International by Whitney Naslund which a) explains why the article was written by Malard when the author in the title is Nasluw and b) states "Wikipedia has permission to use this material".
 * Find at least two existing Wikipedia articles about organisations similar to HMI and read them
 * Create a new page about HMI on the writ-2510 wiki following the hints above
 * Create an entry in the deletion review linking to the writ-2510 article and asking "may I now publish this on Wikipedia".
 * Best of luck. (My sincere apologies for not responding to your comment here three weeks ago - it was in the right place - it was my failure to "watch" properly.) -- RHaworth 19:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, I find my own comment confusing now, I do remember that one. I must've used the wrong template. I removed it accordingly. Seraphimblade 22:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)