User talk:Yusuf96

Welcome!
Hey there Yusuf, welcome to Wikipedia! As you may have noticed, I've made a few edits to the article you just created, Speaking with confidence. Wikipedia already has an article on Public speaking that covers most of the same scope. Generally, an article that's created that covers the same information as an existing article is deleted as a duplicate-- however, the article you've created is very well-written and I think it could be salvaged by merging some of its information with the existing article on public speaking. If you have any questions at all, feel free to reply here on your talk page. Thanks, and again, welcome! AlexHOUSE (talk) 00:17, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Alex

The Wikipedia entry I have created is for school purposes. My teacher required us to do so for a business communication class. I do not know whether my teacher would approve of it being merged with another article, but I could ask him. Otherwise my presentation is on march 25th ., afterwards it would be fine for you to merge it.

Also can you please explain a bit more on how the merging process works, whether the topic name (speaking with confidence) would be changed, basically i don't want my teacher to say that we didn't do anything for the wiki entry

Thank you :)


 * Well, again, it's looking good-- however, what I'm afraid your teacher may not understand is that Wikipedia is a community-driven project. Any single person can work on any article. What this also means is that we strive to have the best encyclopedia possible-- which means we can't have multiple articles for the same topic, regardless of whether it's for an assignment (so, for instance, if my biology teacher assigned me to write a Wikipedia entry on goldfish, I'd be out of luck). Your article can basically go one of a few ways at this point. Unfortunately, it may be deleted. If that happens, contact the administrator that deletes the page, explain your situation, and ask him/her to userfy it for you (they'll know what you're talking about). This will basically ensure that you have a copy of your work. If your article is merged, someone will take information from your article and put it into the Public speaking article. That way, we won't have duplicate articles and some of your work will be saved as a contribution to Wikipedia. AlexHOUSE (talk) 00:55, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

"he did explain to us that anyone can edit an article on wikipedia and that was his sole purpose of making us upload an article on wikipedia, i just didn't know it can be merged . anyways i would like to thank you for your help."

Yusuf