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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! <-- that is a canned message up to here, but I am in fact a real person and would like to welcome you. I noticed you edited at List of historical societies and that your edit was reverted by another editor. Hey, it is hard to get started here in Wikipedia, because there are lots of written and unwritten rules that a new editor can run afoul of. I would like to help you get started if I may. I will "watchlist" here so I will likely see any response you make here, but if you reply and I don't respond please feel free to contact me at my own Talk page, where I will be sure to receive your message and I could return here. To start, I noticed you added Ards Historical Society (currently a redlink) to the list of historical societies, and I will add that there again, myself, after having verified that indeed such an organization exists :) as you know of course. I will also add an official-looking footnote or two to help keep the deleters away, and my own record/reputation as an editor will help make the edit "stick". :) I hope that you might be an informed local historian or history buff and interested/able in improving coverage of Ards (territory) in terms of text and/or photos. It would be great to have you on board. FYI, there is a "WikiProject" group of editors interested in developing Wikipedia coverage of local history, wp:HSITES, which I belong to and to which I'd like to invite you to join. It hasn't been very active recently but remains a place where you can share and get help.

An issue raised explicitly or implied by the other editor is that your username seems to be intended for use by the organization, while username policy here is that the username should be specific to an individual. So it would be good if you could yourself request to have your user account name changed, or simply open a new account, in a different name. You could be, say "ardsbuff" or "ards1234" or anything else signifying an interest in Ards, or something else entirely. If you open a new account please do let me know.

Anyhow, I hope you first interactions with Wikipedia haven't been all bad, and that you might return and contribute more successfully! Cheers, --doncram 21:08, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

P.S. The username policy info is at Wikipedia:Username policy. Shortcut wp:ISU goes to its section on "implied shared use". wp:UNC goes to its section on getting a username changed (again, which you could do or skip and just start a new account). Also, sorry about the horridly old Talk page editing interface that we have to work with here, it is very antiquated. --doncram 21:12, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Home of the Ards Historical Society (February 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MatthewVanitas was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:23, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello! Ards Historical, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:23, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi again...don't give up... I can try to help with that article. For one thing, it should be titled "Market House" plus a parenthetical location, , and focus should be on it as a historic site. Is it a listed building? That would make all the difference. And the article must have references. Can you please cite a source or 2 or 3. The source can be a book or article that is not online, too. But can you link to any online sources? --doncram 03:00, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi again, I have added to the draft article and I think it is good enough for mainspace now, probably to go as Market House, Newtownards. Are you there? It would be nice if you could comment here or at the Talk page of the draft or mainspace article. --doncram 20:39, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on Ards Historical Society requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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