User talk:Virginia Hillbilly

National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit to the page French Resistance, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. S0091 (talk) 19:40, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * Sorry, I am new to Wikipedia. I read that I have to make 10 edits in order to become autoconfirmed and submit a new article.  My word processor flagged those words as mispelled and since the article was not about England, I changed them to the American English. Virginia Hillbilly (talk) 19:50, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I understand. Do not worry about things like autoconfirm.  You can submit a draft regardless which is what I recommend doing anyway as most brand new editors' articles either get deleted or moved to a draft anyway.  Either way, see Your first article for guidance.  Most people's first articles are about a person or company so see WP:NBIO for the notability guidelines for people and WP:NCORP for companies, if my assumption is correct.  My best advice is start with strong sources, simply summarizing what they say.  You can see my user page for additional advice. S0091 (talk) 19:59, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I plan to write about the 1884 Pocahontas Virginia Mine Disaster. It was a significant event in the coal fields of Virginia before the turn of the 20th Century and is well documented across various sources, but does not have its own Wikipedia page.  I have my sources lined up and plan to write the article within the month.  I am using an existing article about a mine disaster in Tennessee which occurred much later as an example. Virginia Hillbilly (talk) 20:08, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Well, not that it happened but that is what you writing about. Ok, then relevant notability guideline is WP:NEVENT. Which article are you using for an example?  The reason I ask is because some are bad and don't want you to use a bad example.  S0091 (talk) 20:16, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I am using Fraterville Mine disaster - Wikipedia as the example. It looked like it was well documented which is the criteria I felt was most important.  I have experience in writing engineering documents, but obviously not creating them in the Wikipedia style. Virginia Hillbilly (talk) 22:45, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Fraterville Mine disaster is a decent article but some of the content is unsourced and it largely relies on two sources. I looked for similar articles that are Good Article status (meaning they went they a more though review and determined they meet Good Article criteria).  I did not see any in Category:Mining disasters in the United States (you can take at look articles there for other examples, with varying quality) but did find Great Mill Disaster which recently through the Good Article review.  As far as creating a Wikipedia article, you just summarize what the sources say in your own words.  Also, you do not need to write a robust article for it to deemed notable, meaning you can put together a couple well-sourced paragraphs (sourced with reliable sources that show in-depth coverage) to it get into mainspace then continue working on it from there.  The benefit of doing it that way is other editors may take notice and assist.  I suggest creating it in draft space.  When ready, you can either submit it through the Articles for creation (aka AfC) process where it does through a notability review beforehand or move it to mainspace yourself without a pre-review (follow link for instructions).  Either way, it will get some form of a high-level review to determine if it meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines.  If you have questions or need help, you can ask at the Teahouse.  You are also welcome to ask me either by pinging| me here (click "reply" at end of my signature, then click the person icon, search/select my User name to add a ping) or leaving a note on my talk page (click the talk link beside my name).  S0091 (talk) 15:58, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the advice. I already have about 20 sources of information.  I will take your advice and write a few well sourced paragraphs following the example of the Great Mill Disaster your mentioned. Virginia Hillbilly (talk) 08:30, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Boarding pass, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 02:33, 26 September 2022 (UTC)