User talk:Swino

A tag has been placed on Antony Aldcroft, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does 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. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on 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. -FisherQueen (Talk) 14:04, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from creating inappropriate pages. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. -FisherQueen (Talk) 14:10, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to create inappropriate pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -FisherQueen (Talk) 14:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Athlete articles
I'm seeing a lot of these short articles about athletes this morning, and I'm not sure what to make of them. They don't really have any context that would indicate whether these athletes are notable or not, and most of them are only one or two sentences long.

Are they professional atheletes? High school students? I can't even tell what sport they play from the articles, much less determine notability.

Please, carefully read WP:BIO to make sure that you are writing about notable people, and if you are, develop articles more fully, so that a reader can tell why the person you are writing about is important. -FisherQueen (Talk) 14:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Continuing to create athelete articles without context
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -FisherQueen (Talk) 14:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ack! Slow down!
You're removing Wikipedia content in your haste to include your sports team. Be careful, and try not to blank existing pages. Thanks! --209.237.76.104 14:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC) sorrrryyy

Copyright issues
In addition your contributions seem to be cut and pasted in their entirety from the website of [Swinton Lions RLC. We cannot accept [[Wikipedia:Copyrights|copyrighted]] text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. As a copyright violation, the articles appear to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source. However please take care not to over-write pages which already exist. Give your contributions unique names, such as John Walker (rugby player) if a page already exists, but to not copy text from external websites. Use external sources for facts, not words.

If you believe that an article is not a copyright violation or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on the article's talkpage. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Tonywalton | Talk 14:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, the copyright violations have now all been deleted. Please don't do that again. You are very welcome to contribute articles on Swinton players, but they need to be in your own words, and need to explain what they are talking about, An article about someone which merely says "joined the team in 2005" tells no-one anything: which team, for a start, and which sport (someone reading this in Kuala Lumpur may not be familiar with Swinton Lions)?. Remember this is read worldwide and so articles must explain their "context". here is an example of pretty much the minimum article that will survive (don't bother about the "infobox" on the right if you don't want to, but you are free to copy it with appropriate information into your own articles if you wish). That's called a stub, that is, an article which at least contains enough to allow someone to have a stab at expanding it. You can also put "category" tags on the article - see the Ben Cockayn article for examples. Also, if you are creating "stub" articles, please put on them, which places them on a list so interested editors can expand them. Thanks very much. Tonywalton | Talk 15:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC)