User talk:Summer Interns

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Summer Interns/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Summer Interns/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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Welcome!
Hello, Summer Interns, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 11:42, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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Sandbox
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It's not a free webhost for you to post projects to help your boss improve profits.  Acroterion   (talk)   11:50, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello and welcome, but what is it you want to do here?
Welcome to Wikipedia. The links in the message above will tell you more about it: it is a project to build an encyclopedia, and that is all it is; it is not a place for activities like working on a joint report, unless that report is intended to become an encyclopedia article. That is the reason why your sandbox page was deleted.

Please note that Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only. If more than one person wishes to contribute here, each must have his or her own account. Of course, that does not stop you working together on a joint document.

I'm not sure what your purpose here is. Your sandbox page implied that it was "to help our boss Martin Chavez raise profits for the company". In that case, sorry, but Wikipedia is not the site for you: it is absolutely not for advertising or promotion of any kind, or to help anyone raise profits, and in writing about your own company you would have a Conflict of interest..

Maybe this is not about a real boss or a real company, but just a classroom project. In that case, please ask your instructor to look at School and university projects. Class projects can be useful, but they need to be set up so that they are useful to the encyclopedia as well as to the participants.

If what you want to do is set up a place where you can work together on drafting a document, but that does not have any encyclopedic use, I suggest you look at Wikia. That runs on the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, but unlike Wikipedia it is happy to host almost any kind of material. You may well find a suitable wiki to join there, or if not you can set up your own wiki there.

You can leave any questions below here - I will watch this talk page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:03, 23 July 2014 (UTC)