User talk:Karinbellinghausen

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Hello, Karinbellinghausen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Ted Stahl Introduces Heat Press Central Blog do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as Ted Stahl Introduces Heat Press Central Blog, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Ted Stahl, 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 Ted Stahl 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 independent 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. -- Shadowlynk (Talk) 19:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your note on the talk page of the above article. The concern about the Ted Stahl article was not that he isn't notable, but rather that the article was written in an overly promotional manner. Based on the links you provided, he may meet the Wikipedia notability guidelines, but an article has to have a neutral and non-promotional tone. If you try writing it again, I also recommend including the outside links as part of the article. Let me know if you have questions.--Kubigula (talk) 22:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the constructive comments to heart. You can use the DBusiness article as a reference. There is no requirement that references have to be available online, merely that they be verifiable. To start, I suggest putting any references in a separate section (==References==), and format them as best you can. There's no need for it to be perfect - the Wiki process is that articles progress and get cleaned up.--Kubigula (talk) 22:44, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the links from the talk page, if that helps:

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--Kubigula (talk) 23:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That happens sometimes - servers catching up. It's infuriating when it happens when you are trying to save an edit. That's why I usually prep articles in a word processor before taking them live.--Kubigula (talk) 01:37, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox[edit]

Sorry for your frustration. WP gets slammed with lots of new articles of various types every day, and it's a challenge to sift through them - a process not always pleasant for those trying to create the articles.

I created a sandbox (work page in your own userspace) and restored the article to that sandbox - User:Karinbellinghausen/Sandbox. You can work on the article there, then decide if you want to take it "live" when you are ready. I'll help with formatting etc.--Kubigula (talk) 03:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I recommend putting something on your userpage - User:Karinbellinghausen. It's better to have a "bluelink" in your username. If nothing else, you can create a redirect to your talkpage.--Kubigula (talk) 03:40, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]