User talk:BettyStokes

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Happy editing! Jh12 (talk) 23:44, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Trunnell Elementary School

Your request to add this article was brought up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools. Please note that because of the way Wikipedia works, in my experience newly created articles for elementary schools are now frequently deleted or redirected to another article unless they show some form of Notability that is properly sourced. In other words, please clearly indicate if the school has won a national award/significant honor or attracted significant attention/news coverage and then list the sources (newspaper, magazine, website) where that information can be verified. You will also want to be careful about Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which can be mitigated by relying on Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View, and Wikipedia:Reliable sources. If the school doesn't have that significant information, I am afraid it would be difficult for us to add the article and keep it on Wikipedia. Best, --Jh12 (talk) 23:44, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please take some time and read some of the links posted above. Your edits to Category:WikiProject Schools have been reverted as vandalism in that they are completely out of place. Articles are not to be written on category pages. Dbiel ^(Talk) 23:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It should also be noted that there are numerous problems with the article as you have written it, besides simply not being created as an article. There are copywrite violations as parts are a direct copy and paste from http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Schools/Elementary/Trunnell/pdfs/TrunnellHistory.pdf see WP:copyvio It does not meet any of the minimum notability standards that are a Wikipedia requirement. Please take some time to review the information at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines and if you feel like you would like to undertake writing an article on the school and need help, feel free to post a request at my talk page or ask at any of the other help resources that are available. The links at the top of this page are meant to help new users as well. Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. Dbiel ^(Talk) 05:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed please Trunnell Elementary School

I have tried to make your article in article main space instead of category space. It will be deleted unless you will possibly do the next two steps...Let me know, and I or the two folks above...will help you put it into wikpedia formatting.

First: I need you to go to this page and talk to these nice folks about copyright. If you are the copyright holder, go to Wikipedia:Request for immediate removal of copyright violation; You wrote a lovely article which is online as a PDF file, and a lot of that content is now on wikipedia, so tell wikipedia at the above link know that you say it is oK to be here too.
- Trunnell History book 12/99

Second: I need a bibliography for the article, like the ones school papers do. On wikipedia they are a bit different. On school papers the bibliography is plunked at the end of the paper or report. On wikipedia if I say in a wikipedia article the sun was blue, there would be a number which would refer to the bibliography, resulting in an inline citation thingie to the Foo newspaper or magazine or scientific journal or source that originally said that because of Foo Foo the sky turned... Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners If you can send up a bibliography for the newspapers with their page numbers for the news articles, and any similar news articles or magazines that talked about the school and their bibliography that would be awesome!!! If you send it to me or put it on the talk page of the article that would be a big help. Like....

- 1994: Connie Award (for use of artists in the school) Published 1994, Smith, Bill. Foo Magazine. Foo county, Pennsylvannia.

- 1994 Louisville Courier Journal, "Meriting Honors" maybe add some prose not quoting the article, but putting the article in your own words as a paraphrase.

Bibliography... Last name author, First name author. Louisville Courier Journal, "Meriting Honors". Place. Page something. ....or whatever it is...

- - If you can do these above things, your article may have a chance of survival. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 05:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]