Charl Hattingh

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August 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to User talk:Charl Hattingh, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

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• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: User talk:Charl Hattingh was moved to Talk:HaShem YAHUAH by Charl Hattingh (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2010-08-14T11:54:23+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 11:54, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of HaShem YAHUAH

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MfD nomination of User:Charl Hattingh/Hashem yahuah

User:Charl Hattingh/Hashem yahuah, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Charl Hattingh/Hashem yahuah and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Charl Hattingh/Hashem yahuah during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 19:17, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Some advice, take it or leave it

You appear to be attempting to write a draft article here. You are right that drafts are best started in user space, which is what you are doing. However, there are quite a number of problems with the draft. I urge you to look at other articles in this encyclopedia to get a sense of the style and structure.

For example, articles are never written in the first person. The use of "we" or "I" is a sign you aren't following the usual rules.

Please check out WP:MOS for general guidance.

I've also noticed that it is very difficult for new editors to start right out creating an article. If you start my searching out other articles, and making improvements with edits, you'll get a sense of how articles are structured, and be in a better position to write an article. The subject you've started is interesting, but a substantial challenge. If you decided to be an architect, would you start out designing a skyscraper, of a more modest building first?--SPhilbrickT 16:37, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

I would like to add to Sphilbrick's excellent words above that Wikipedia does not accept original research - your own interpretation of something. If you have some sources which would meet Wikipedia's criteria as reliable (see here for the criteria) and independent (see here for the criteria) which can verify that the interpretation in the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guidelines, and can be verified by other editors, then it might be a good idea to add them. If the article is your own work (for example, for a dissertation or similar), or a theory which is not recognised as valid, then it would probably not be suitable for inclusion, interesting though it is. I'd concur with Sphilbrick's recommendation: start small before going for a "big" challenege! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (or Sphilbrick, of course!) -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 17:07, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

I hope this doesn't sound like piling on, but I want to echo PhantomSteve's thought, with a personal story of my own. After I became aware of Wikipedia, but before I started editing, I had an idea that I thought would make a good website, with some information that might be valuable to others. I roughly sketched out the research plan to develop the material. Then i saw Wikipedia, and I thought it would be the perfect place for this research. However, after getting involved with Wikipedia, I came to understand that it is not a place for original research. Nothing wrong with original research, if done well, it is a very valuable contribution to human knowledge, but it is decidedly not the goal of Wikipedia to host such material. If your goal is to do original research on the sound of the name, this isn't the place for you. Best of luck with your task, but it should be done elsewhere. If you do a good job, and get it published in a reliable source, then it would be suitable material for an article here. Please feel free to contact PhantomSteve or myself, we'd both be happy to help you understand what types of material are appropriate here, and find out if there is something that you could do here that would belong.--SPhilbrickT 17:47, 22 August 2010 (UTC)