User talk:Knowledge Examiner

Hello, Knowledge Examiner, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

I'm Steven, a Wikipedia editor like you, and I noticed that you made a helpful change to Irreligion. Thank you for your contributions. Wikipedia is a community of volunteers who want to build a great free encyclopedia, and we need your help. We have five simple rules, but other than that, we just need people like you to be bold and edit.

If you have questions of any kind, feel free to ask me on my Wikipedia talk page or by email.

Best regards, Steven Walling • talk 04:47, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Useful edits on teleology are always welcome, especially concerning the biological section. I hope you will put it on your watchlist! Andrew Lancaster (talk) 16:43, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you and I will do.

Proposed deletion of Software Construction

The article Software Construction has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Dicdef, and a term too vague to be used for expanding into an article.

While all 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 ) 02:09, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Dear DDG,

I would like first to thank you for your concern about Wikipedia standards and for your patience to discuss before deletion. When I created the article I was motivated by two concerns about the software engineering material on Wikipedia. First, the lack of peer-reviewed secondary sources and second, the lack of standardization of the expressions, definitions, and topics which may create a state of confusion, conflict, and redundancy about the modifying the existing material. I thought that the best solution for this to standardize the expressions, definitions, and topics using a peer-reviewed widely accepted references like IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. This should provide an organized hierarchical topical access to all topics of software engineering thus eliminates any confusion, conflict, or redundancy in the topics and encourages the use of peer-reviewed sources by providing one and only one relevant places for each piece of peer-reviewed material. The Software Construction article was intended to be a start for this approach, and in the next weeks I will try to enhance the article with other sources.

hi

Great to see your good work on computer topics. Dick has pointed out a few formatting fiddlies that about WP's guidelines. Thanks. Tony (talk) 15:24, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Knowledge Examiner. All or some of your addition(s) to Software construction has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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