User talk:Whiteeagle71

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Hello, Whiteeagle71, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! jmcw (talk) 08:07, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hoshin Budo Ryu article
I see via the Article for Deletion that Hoshin Budo Ryu is your first article. First articles are difficult because you don't know the rules and conventions here at Wikipedia. Two important standards are wp:reliable sources and wp:notability. Reliable sources are used to establish notability. After reading the article, I would like to make a few recommendations.

First, go to the article page, edit the article and copy the entire text source of the article into a local file on your computer. An alternative would be to create a Sub-page in your name space and copy the entire article there. In the event that the article is deleted, you can still work on improving it and either re-install it after improvements or better, ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Martial arts for comments.

Second, find third-party sources. It appears that Hoshin Budo Ryu rather uniquely combines martial arts and healing arts. Can you find any references about Hoshin Budo Ryu in independent journals/magazines devoted to healing? That would probably be enough to save the article from deletion. Finding several references would go a long way to establishing notability.

I wish you luck and please remember that there are many nice, helpful people here at Wikipedia! jmcw (talk) 08:28, 19 April 2010 (UTC)