User talk:Stephencooke

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I'd like to add my welcome, as well. I also should warn you that in the past, articles on individual bus routes have been deleted as not meeting Wikipedia's guidline on notability, i.e., many editors have felt that bus routes do not merit an article on Wikipedia. I would hate to see you go to a lot of effort to create these articles, only to have them deleted. I also encourage you to read up a bit on how to write better Wikipedia articles in the links that Will has provided above. For example, your articles do not mention what city and country the bus routes operate it. Think of a person in Australia who happens across one of your articles. Will hte article make sense to him or her? It would also be useful to provide a link to the Toronto Transit Commission article to give the reader a starting point in looking for additonal information. Again, welcome to Wikipedia! Regards, Ground Zero | t 22:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * And one more thing, following the Wikipedia Manual of Style, headings within articles are capitalized in the same way as an ordinary sentence (e.g., "Surface connections"), and not like a title (e.g., Surface Connections"). Please keep this in mind. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 22:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Stephen, I see that you have changed headings in a dozen more articles to "Surface Connections". This not consistent with Wikipedia style. Please change these to "Surface connections" as discussed above. Please do not create work for other editors. Please fix your own mistakes, and avoid making new ones. Thank you. Ground Zero | t 12:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, Stephen. Happy editing. Ground Zero | t 14:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * As commented upon by Ground Zero I have requested a speedy delete of 139 Finch East on the grounds of non-notability and lack of context - I had to come to this talk page to even know it was about bus routes. Perhaps you should create an article regarding Toronto (or was it Montreal?) public bus services, and then split off sub articles regarding individual routes (or groups of routes). Even then, you may find articles deleted as not being of encyclopedic value. ps. if you wish to contest the speedy delete, then you need go to the article concerned. LessHeard vanU 22:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

TTC Surface Connections
Just out of curiosity, why did you add all the connecting routes to the TTC subway station pages, when all of them are already there in the infobox under Connections? Suigi 04:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Non-notable bus routes
The article 97 Yonge has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Brad Beattie (talk) 09:47, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Sbrools ( talk .  contribs ) 21:26, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Lard vandalism
Please do not add unhelpful and non-constructive information to Wikipedia. Your edits could be considered vandalism, and they have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Peter G Werner 01:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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