User talk:Markham

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Markham, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Newcomers help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Larry Hillblom[edit]

In the Larry Hillblom article, you've made quite a lot of statements that require some sourcing, see Wikipedia:Cite your sources. Please provide some information about the sources that you've used, or else, because of our verifiability policy your additions will have to be removed. Thanks! --Joanne B 08:29, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Murder[edit]

In the article on murder you set Belgian's murder rate at 9.1 pro 100,000 citing an article from The Wall Street Journal. Unfortunatly Bret Stephens was falsely informed. That 9,1 figure also includes (unsuccesfull) attempts. In 2005 Belgian federal police registered 172 murders and manslaugthers for a pro capita rate of 1,6 per 100 000.

btw you can sign by adding three or four ~, i.e. --~~~~ gives me: --moyogo 09:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Feel this free.jpg[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Kirby Wilbur[edit]

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Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Markham! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 901 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Beccy Cole - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:07, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Peopleclick Authoria[edit]

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Thank you.

A tag has been placed on Peopleclick Authoria, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous 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 Peopleclick Authoria 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. Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 04:17, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification[edit]

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Mzinga (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

was linked to Swahili

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Nomination of Vistagy for deletion[edit]

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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 template from the top of the article. Syrthiss (talk) 21:27, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Jay Bennish[edit]

The article Jay Bennish has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Basically a WP:BLP1E with no real notability beyond this event.

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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. Thargor Orlando (talk) 16:22, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Mzinga[edit]

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

Does not appear to be a noteworthy company. Only story is more about the reaction to 15 people being laid off than the company itself.

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. Thargor Orlando (talk) 17:06, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Peoplefluent[edit]

Hello Markham,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Peoplefluent for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Vexations (talk) 01:27, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Peoplefluent[edit]

Hello Markham,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Peoplefluent for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

SamHolt6 (talk) 22:23, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

June 2018[edit]

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as Peoplefluent, to Wikipedia, as doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Wikipedia:Your first article; you might also consider using the Article Wizard. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. SamHolt6 (talk) 06:29, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Bedford Funding[edit]

Hello Markham,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Bedford Funding for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons. For more details please see the notice on the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

SamHolt6 (talk) 06:31, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]