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Besides being controversial, you need reasons for quick, easy, and undeniable deletion. I'm deprodding it. You may go to WP:AfD after conducting a WP:BEFORE search. Bearian (talk) 19:14, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Kylemahar902, that article is a mix of biased sources, WP:SYNTH, and unsupported claims that reads like an undergrad essay from a left-wing college. My advice is chip away slowly, as there are kernels of truth in the article. However, the title "environmental racism" implies this was intentionally directed at these groups for racist reasons, and that will require reliable sources that can affirm city councils intended this for racist reasons (not just because some PhD writing in some obscure leftie journal thinks it's racism). Moreover, I have seen nothing stating that poor white communities weren't also located near these dumps, which would certainly necessitate a name-change for the article. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Magnolia677. Your reasoning around the biased sources and WP:SYNTH were precisely my rationale for prodding the article. Naturally I have no issues with such an article existing; but as you said, this is much more of an essay than an encyclopedic article and I felt as though it was not in a state where it really belonged, by any metric. It's not a simple matter of adding a few citations in my eyes; this requires an entire rewrite at best. The fact that this article might be considered "controversial" is precisely why it requires greater scrutiny. I chose not to engage further with submitting the article to AfD or bringing it up for further discussion as I do not want to become associated with controversy as an editor. I contribute to Wikipedia under my own name and I do not want anyone to misinterpret my reasoning for thinking the article should be deleted. Ultimately, I'm here to have fun and contribute to the cause of spreading knowledge. The existence of that article isn't hurting anyone.
- Best regards, Kylemahar902 (talk) 00:04, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
I started a discussion at Talk:Environmental racism in Nova Scotia#How to improve this article. --Magnolia677 (talk) 16:13, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi! Thanks for the welcome! I am a volunteer editor for wikiHow, and I was hoping the wikitext would be the same on here but it isn't, how do you design your userpage? Leia (...message...) 02:36, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi! I'd start with taking a look at WP:USERPAGE, which will explain userpage policy, creation of subpages and everything else to you. If you'd like, there is a user page design guide but it's a little outdated. I personally made my userpage just by yoinking someone else's code and altering it to my tastes. If you'd like, you can copy the code off of my userpage and change out all the userboxes and such to your liking. If there's something in specific you're trying to do, let me know. Hope that helps. Kylemahar902 (talk) 02:51, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- By the way, if you're struggling with wikitext in general, you may wish to go through the introduction if you haven't yet seen that. Kylemahar902 (talk) 02:57, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! And I did take a look at the introduction. :) Leia (...message...) 14:02, 16 February 2025 (UTC)