User talk:Alain971

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Hello, Alain971, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Communicating Across Cultures, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Communicating Across Cultures

The article Communicating Across Cultures has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Wikipedia is not a how-to guide

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. MaenK.A._Talk 15:03, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

June 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with Communicating Across Cultures. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. MaenK.A._Talk 15:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion is not deletion discussion

Madhero88 erred when s/he warned you not to remove a Articles for deletion notice from the page Communicating Across Cultures. What you removed was a dated {{prod}} template. Unlike Articles for deletion, prod (proposed deletion) is used only when deletion is non-controversial. Therefore any user who objects to deletion should remove the template. You were quite right to do so. I have removed the prod template again on your behalf.

On the other hand, the article, Communicating Across Cultures, appears to be a how-to guide rather than an encyclopedia entry. This is not appropriate for Wikipedia, per the guideline Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. It may be appropriate for a sister project, such as Wikihow.

I have therefore nominated the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Communicating Across Cultures. This is the process for deleting articles about which there is some good faith disagreement. You are invited to add your voice to the discussion there. Together, we will attempt to reach consensus before deciding what to do with the article. Cnilep (talk) 21:06, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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