User talk:Sterlingw

Mining
Hi, and welcome (again) to Wikipedia. With regards to your recent edits to Mining, they have been reverted. The edits that you had added were too specific to mines in the United States for the core mining article. In this article we try to equally write about mining and mining practices throughout the world, and a specific program in the US with regards to abandoned mines is far too specific for an article this general. The information you provided is more suited to be in an article about Abandoned mines in the United States or The Abandoned Mine Land Portal. Note that these articles do not exist yet, and you are welcome to create them, however they will be subject to scrutiny as all new pages are. You will be required to provide evidence of notability as it relates to Wikipedia, and also provide reliable sources to establish the notability. If you would like any help with this please feel free to ask me, you appear to have quite a bit of knowledge about mining, and would be a great asset to Wikipedia and WikiProject Mining so I personally would like to see you stay. If you want to to any tests with article creation you can do that here, this will allow you to start something without having to worry about it being deleted or reverted before you have time to get it finished, references sorted out, notability esteblished etc. Again if you have any questions please ask!--kelapstick (talk) 18:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)