User talk:Whiskeyfella

Welcome
 Hello Whiskeyfella, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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Whiskeyfella, good luck, and have fun. --Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 12:34, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Formatting at Patrick O. Strickland
Greetings, your formatting at Patrick O. Strickland wasn't really on-par, so I cleaned it up for you. Moving forward, make sure you read some of the basic tutorials on editing and formatting so you can get your articles to a more polished state before launching. Feel free to write me with any questions, MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:57, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Source at Patrick O. Strickland
Whiskey, just a heads-up: items written by the subject don't count as WP:Reliable sources towards WP:Notability. It has to be things written about the subject by other people. Articles written by Strickland should be filed at the end under "External links", but for the main body of the article you need to substantiate claimed facts by links to things written about him by other people. Please check out WP:Notability (people) for more details. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:52, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * There's a 10-day deadline to apply sufficient third-party sourcing to artices that are Biographies of living persons. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Patrick O. Strickland


The article Patrick O. Strickland has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article. &#32; The nominator also raised the following concern:
 * It appears that most/all the sources are items written by the subject, now about him. Please see WP:Notability (people) for details as to what sources do and do not evidence Notability

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)