Link from the Void

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About Aardwolf (MUD)...

Hey, James, I saw your article, and I'm afraid I've proposed it for deletion. The thing is that, as written, the article makes no claims of notability, which is the standard of inclusion for new articles on Wikipedia, and after looking a little bit into it, I don't think there's any realistic prospect of notability, either. The basic minimum criteria for an article is expressed in the general notability guideline, which says that the subject of the article must have significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that are independent of the subject.

The reason that we have this notability guideline is that, on Wikipedia, we need our information to be verifiable through references to reliable sources. Verifiability is the only way we can even have a hope of asserting that our information is accurate. On Wikipedia, our information is only as good as the sources which back it up, and non-notable subjects just don't have enough coverage in reliable sources for us to be able to write anything about them.

Of course, it's possible that I've missed some reliable sources that discuss Aardwolf; if I have, then feel free to add them to the article. You can halt the deletion process of the page at any time by removing the {{proposed deletion ... }} at the top of the page. Keep in mind though that there are other deletion processes that the page can go to, so halting the deletion without addressing the underlying issues won't really accomplish much. But if you think you need more time to establish notability, feel free to halt the deletion and go for it.

Finally, let me just say: don't worry about it! Even if the article ends up getting deleted, it's no big deal! Nobody will hold it against you; lots of people have their articles deleted. Wikipedia can be a pretty fun place once you learn the ropes, so don't get discouraged! If you need any help, you can ask me questions on my talk page. An even better place to get questions about Wikipedia answered is the Teahouse, where we hosts would be more than happy to answer any questions you might ask us. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback

I suggest visiting the tutorial.

Salma Vian (talk) 20:34, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

 

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: NOT BEING TROUTED BEFORE

Re: A barnstar for you!

You're most certainly welcome James! Thank you for your kind words, my new barnstar, and your note of appreciation. I personally tend to think of reference formatting as a rather minor type of edit, but according to the docs, they really shouldn't be marked as such. The article you mention was an easy one, but I often incorporate a lot of manual editing in conjunction with Reflinks to get it right... along with other various bits of assorted wikification. If you take a look at the revision history at Chinese Democracy Tour, you'll quickly see how this type of editing can prove to be a real time consuming nightmare on certain articles. Have yourself a great day James, stay well, and happy editing! :)  -- WikHead (talk) 03:29, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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Hi James3167, and thanks for leaving feedback. MLA citations are totally acceptable on Wikipedia, but we don't (to the best of my knowledge) have a citation template for them, so they have to be done manually. If you are familiar the correct format for MLA, feel free to use it accordingly. However, there is no requirement to favour one particular citation style over any other (there's no Wikipedia house style for references), so you are free to use whatever style you see fit to.

Yunshui 雲‍水 10:11, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

 

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Your signature

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DYK nomination of Juniper's Knot

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Article Feedback deployment

Hey Link from the Void; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:11, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Cause u said so! ~~Junvfr <~_~> (talk) 23:31, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Crunch, crunch!

Here are some chips to go with your fish!

a side for you

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