User talk:Rhysedwards cf

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Hello, Rhysedwards cf, 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, such as Cat vomit exercise, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 19:11, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Cat vomit exercise

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A tag has been placed on Cat vomit exercise, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 19:11, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We don't do "watch this space" articles - if you want to take time over developing an article, see Help:Userspace draft for how to do it in your own user space, move it into the main encyclopedia only when it's ready. See WP:Your first article for what an article needs if it is to be kept. JohnCD (talk) 19:20, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your email

See the note just above, which I posted here when I deleted the article, to explain why it was deleted and what you could do about preparing a new version in a userspace draft if you wanted to take time about completing it.

You are welcome to do that, or to post an article directly if it contains some content. However, having read your email I have some doubts whether what you have in mind will be suitable: in particular, if this is a newly-invented exercise that you wish to publicise, that is not what Wikipedia is for. As an encyclopedia, it only reports on things that are already established: it is not for announcing anything new.

A fundamental policy is WP:Verifiability: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source... The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true."

The criterion for inclusion is called notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people unconnected with the subject thought it important and significant enough to write substantial comment about?

Related to these is WP:No original research: "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to premiere such a discovery."

Maybe I have misunderstood, and the Cat Vomit Exercise is something well established about which you can cite sources - in that case, by all means go ahead and re-create the article. There is good general advice at Wikipedia:Your first article.

You asked how to complain about me. Wikipedia is a rather un-hierarchical community: the best way would be to post your complaint at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:31, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]