User talk:LukasWikias

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Welcome!

Hello, LukasWikias, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits, such as the ones to the page Franconia–Springfield Station, show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

Did you know that ...

...wikipedia has a very stringent image use policy?
...most images from Flickr, online news websites, and other web sources are copyrighted?
...wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously?
...freely-licensed images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, a central location for images where they can be used on all Wikipedia projects?
...we recommend that new users use our "files for upload" process - at least until you get the hang of things?

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Proposed deletion of San Antonio Circuit[edit]

The article San Antonio Circuit has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Outside of a WP:SPS, there are no sources for this usage.

While all constructive 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. Imzadi 1979 → 04:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of San Antonio Circuit for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article San Antonio Circuit is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Antonio Circuit until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Imzadi 1979 → 21:42, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please acquaint yourself with the proper definition of a "self-published source" (SPS). A source is self-published if the author causes it to be published without any level of editorial oversight. Reputable newspapers, magazines, and TV networks/stations all have editors who approve articles before they are put in print or published online. Most books submitted for publication go through a fact-checking process of some sort by the publication company's editors before they are printed, although some books are self-published through the vanity press. Articles or books published through these methods, excluding the vanity press, are subject to retractions, revisions, or corrections as necessary to ensure that the information they publish is reliable, and this is evidence of that editorial oversight that is a hallmark of a source's reliability.

For websites, we apply similar standards. The person behind the Texas Highway Man website does not submit his content to another person for editing and verification. That means it is a SPS, period. Tagging it as such in a Wikipedia article does not mean that you published the underlying source; it means that the underlying source lacks evidence of editorial oversight of its content. SPSs are not allowed for use on Wikipedia articles, except where they are published by experts in their fields. A university mathematics professor who publishes a webpage on a calculus technique would be an expert in the field, and that webpage could be cited in a Wikipedia article. However, it would be better to cite one of his or her articles from a journal. If that same professor wrote a webpage on the history of a highway in his or her state, he or she would not be an expert on history and the webpage would be considered a SPS.

In short, your concept of a SPS is wrong, and because you removed the PROD tag on that basis, the article has been sent to WP:AFD with the same, albeit expanded, rationale for its deletion. The correct solution is to find sources that pass the reliable source test and use them to cite the article. Imzadi 1979 → 21:55, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So sorry! Fairly new to wikipedia, sorry to make you go through this mess! Thanks! LukasWikias (talk) 00:21, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced addition to Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin)[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. 32.218.36.79 (talk) 18:28, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]