JuliaBWebster

300 Bowling and Entertainment Centers

Hi Julia;

I have removed the CSD template from the above article, as a revalidation showed that the article was not quite as close to the amount of advertisement i originally thought. The main reason for thinking so was the excessive amount of links that directed the user to the website on the company (10+). I removed the excessive links and placed one link to the company website in the "See Also" section to counter this problem. I also cleaned the article up a bit, Wikified it and created an automatic reflist instead of the one you manually created.

Don't let this CSD tag discourage you though, as generally taken it is a good article; it has perfectly Neutral wording, and was also about a topic that was Notable. The only thing a little of was the formatting, but that is frankly quite minor. I also see you are quite a new editor, so in case you have any questions regarding articles, editing or anything else that is Wikipedia related feel free to drop a line on my talk page, and ill help you where i can :). Since i am actually writing now anyway, ill leave a little hint about creating automatic reference lists, since i mentioned that earlier:

Little hint If you place links between <ref>Link here</ref> you only have to add the word: {{reflist}} under the references section to generate the reflist automatically.

With kind regards, and wishing you a happy editing time
Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 18:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

"300 Atlanta"

A tag has been placed on "300 Atlanta", requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of "300 Atlanta" and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Daltxn (talk) 18:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Acceptable articles

Could you help me to determine what is an acceptable article and what is not? You helped me a lot on the 300 Bowling and Entertainment Centers article but I had a CSD placed on the 300 Atlanta article that I just posted about one of the 300 Centers. I'd like to learn what formats, copy, etc. I should start incorporating when I post articles in the future.

Can you help?

JuliaBWebster (talk) 19:17, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

• Sure i can!

The reason why the second article was deleted is most likely an A7: Not notable issue. One of the reasons that this is placed upon a page is because the subject of an article must be notable, that is, have a reason why it should be on an encyclopedia. In this case the subject of the article on the 300 brand is notable because it follows more or less complies with the notability guidelines in WP:Notable, yet the individual location is not notable (On wikipedia being related to notable things doesn't give notability. So a popstars family should not get individual articles just for being family). One of the easiest ways to check if something is notable is asking yourself: "If i am only discussing the articles subject, is it special for any reason? (Special can also be substituted for: Does it meet the specific guidelines for the subject in WP:Notable?".)

As for the Wikipedia formatting, its pretty easy to learn, but takes a bit of time to master, and you never seem to get finished learning it :). One of the easiest places to learn about formatting using wiki markup is WP:Markup. This page offers a basic overview of the most used wiki markup; Its doesn't cover any templates that can be used, but 9 out of 10 times those are only used for maintenance work, and not for writing articles.

Hope that helps, and as always with kind regards,

Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 19:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of 300 Bowling and Entertainment Centers

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