User talk:Fish Demon
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The Marin School
[edit]Some people have raised concerns about your edits to The Marin School on OTRS. Please see my comments to the talk page. --bainer (talk) 10:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
An article you created maybe deleted soon: Tools which can help you
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The article you created: The Marin School may be deleted from Wikipedia. There is an ongoing debate about whether your article should be deleted here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Marin School . The faster you respond on this page, the better chance the article you created can be saved.
Finding sources which mention the topic of your article is the very best way to avoid an article being deleted {{Findsources3}}:
- Find sources for The Marin School : google news recent, google news old, google books, google scholar, NYT recent, NYT old, a9, msbooks, msacademic ...You can then cite these results in the Article for deletion discussion.
Also, there are several tools and helpful editors on Wikipedia who can help you:
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- 1. If your page is encyclopedic, list the page on Article Rescue Squadron by adding:
- {{rescue}} below:
- <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> on the The Marin School page.
- You can get help listing your page on the Article Rescue Squadron talk page.
- 2. At any time, you can ask any administrator to move your article to a special page. (Called userfication)
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- 3. You can request a mentor to help you: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User. But don't wait for a mentor to respond to you before responding on the article for deletion page.
- 4. When trying to delete a page, veteran editors love to use a lot of rule acronyms. These acronyms don't need to intimidate you. Here is a list of acronyms you can use yourself: Deletion debate acronyms, which will help you argue that the article should be kept.
If your page is deleted, you also have many options available. Good luck! Ikip (talk) 21:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)