ChaiYidong

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December 2013

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

 

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. 220 of ^Borg 12:38, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Student project

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! --Tryptofish (talk) 16:35, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Codorus Valley Bancorp

The article Codorus Valley Bancorp has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of significance or importance. Being a public traded company does not assert notability. Routine stock market reports, corporate listings, press releases, and primary sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ORG, and WP:ORGDEPTH. WP:NOTYELLOW.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Patriot National Bancorp

The article Patriot National Bancorp has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of significance or importance. Being a public traded company does not assert notability. Routine stock market reports, corporate listings, press releases, and primary sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ORG, and WP:ORGDEPTH. WP:NOTYELLOW.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of STERLING BANCORP

The article STERLING BANCORP has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of significance or importance. Being a public traded company does not assert notability. Routine stock market reports, corporate listings, press releases, and primary sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ORG, and WP:ORGDEPTH. WP:NOTYELLOW.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:14, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Meridian Interstate Bancorp

The article Meridian Interstate Bancorp has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of significance or importance. Being a public traded company does not assert notability. Routine stock market reports, corporate listings, press releases, and primary sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ORG, and WP:ORGDEPTH. WP:NOTYELLOW.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:15, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of United Security Bancshares

The article United Security Bancshares has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of significance or importance. Being a public traded company does not assert notability. Routine stock market reports, corporate listings, press releases, and primary sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ORG, and WP:ORGDEPTH. WP:NOTYELLOW.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:16, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of United Financial Bancorp

The article United Financial Bancorp has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of significance or importance. Being a public traded company does not assert notability. Routine stock market reports, corporate listings, press releases, and primary sources. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ORG, and WP:ORGDEPTH. WP:NOTYELLOW.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:22, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. A page you recently created may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so it will be removed shortly (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests, and consider using the Article Wizard. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. Please do not create pages that do not comply with our minimum requirements for notability. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Talk page templates

Most "article talk page" templates like {{education assignment}} belong at the top of the talk page. When adding the "education assignment" template, it's best to add it below any existing templates but above the first discussion section. Of course, many times there won't be any other existing templates, and many times there won't be any existing discussion sections. I moved the template in Talk:United Security Bancshares to the right place. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 06:05, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back

Welcome back. I hope you had a good Christmas. As you are probably already aware, about 62 articles written by you or those working with you have all either been deleted, are the subject of deletion discussions (see WP:Articles for deletion and the links at the top of the affected articles), or they have been proposed for deletion (see WP:Proposed deletion and, in some cases, the talk pages of the affected articles).

I would strongly encourage you and the rest of your classmates to suspend creating new business-related articles and suspend adding new content to business-related articles until you each get a better feel for what is and is not appropriate for a Wikipedia business article and what companies are and are not "notable" enough to qualify for an article about themselves (see WP:Notability and WP:CORP for help).

As a rule, a decent business article focuses on the major goods and services that the company is or, for products and services no longer being offered, was known for producing as well as the major impacts that company has made on the world, if any. Things like who the officers are and the company's current financial information is much less important. Yes, businesses articles typically do mention the CEO, the approximate annual revenue, the year the company was founded, where its headquarters are, and maybe even its ticker symbol and web site, but those things are merely mentioned, they are not given very much emphasis. It is much more important to describe what the business does and what the company is best known for than to have the financial information.

I would recommend you look at other business articles, but unfortunately, many of them are in sad shape. You might get some idea of what a very well-written article looks like by Thatgamecompany, which is a Wikipedia Featured Article, or looking at this list of business-related Wikipedia Good Articles for articles written about companies. Now, nobody expects you to go out and write an article that is as good as these, as only a fraction of all articles in Wikipedia are considered "Good Articles" and even fewer are considered "Featured Articles."

When you think you are ready to create a new article, I recommend that you create it as a WP:Userspace draft then ask the people over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business to review it. After they are satisfied that it is about a notable company AND that it meets at least minimal quality standards, move it to the main encyclopedia. But don't do any of this until you've improved your general knowledge of Wikipedia's rules and quality standards. If you need help, I'll monitor your talk page for the next week or so looking for replies to this message. After that time, you can reach me on my talk page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 06:10, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

template: Eduction Assignment

Hi. Unfortunately, adding the template Education assignment to the talk pages of articles that have been proposed for deletion is not going to help stop the deletion process. All articles on Wikipedia must make valid claims of significance and importance and this notability must be demonstrated through reliable sources according to Wikipedia criteria for inclusion. Regular contributors to Wikipedia are volunteers just like you, and they cannot be expected to improve dozens of short articles created by educational projects.

It would be better if you would communicate with us and explain what your university project is. We could then offer some advice. You may also wish to to discuss this with the other students who ar collaborating on your project.

To understand more, please follow the links in the deletion notices. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:40, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of United Security Bancshares

The article United Security Bancshares has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

not notable company -- Prod removed earlier by mistake

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. DGG ( talk ) 19:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)