User talk:Wikiswindon

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Hello, Wikiswindon, 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! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 21:00, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
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Excessively local and transient info
With regret, I had to delete the material you added to the Swindon article because this is material that properly belongs on the Borough Council's website rather than on Wikipedia. In addtion to the 'five pillars of wikipedia', please read about 'notability' which is the criterion which Wikipedia operates to decide what goes in and what does not - you'll find it the relevant Wikipedia Policy at WP:NOTABLE.

Please don't be put off by this reaction to your first contribution. The articles Swindon and Swindon (borough) could both do with being developed and enhanced – as indeed could many of the neighbouring towns and villages in Wiltshire. Best wishes! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 21:00, 23 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I really don't understand why you reinstated that 'localities' info. Wikipedia is not the right place for that kind of info.--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:00, 30 January 2012 (UTC)