User talk:Derekmcmillan

License tagging for Image:Stopp.jpg

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talk page guidelines

Hi, please remember that talk pages are for discussing improvement to the article, not for general discussion of the subject of the article. See Wikipedia:Talk_page#Wikipedia-specific_help for more detail. — coelacan talk — 23:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article may be deleted

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Sackville School East Grinstead, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.sackville.w-sussex.sch.uk/schoolhistory.html. As a copyright violation, Sackville School East Grinstead appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Sackville School East Grinstead has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Sackville School East Grinstead. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Sackville School East Grinstead, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. NMajdan•talk 17:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

West Sussex Teachers' Association

Would you please explain your comments on the talk page? Miss Mondegreen talk 21:43, June 13 2007 (UTC)

Also, please note that the article is being considered for deletion. Miss Mondegreen talk 21:54, June 13 2007 (UTC)

Well WSTA has been deleted from Wikipedia and I am reliably informed that this is not due to a prejudice against trade unions, just a feeling they are not noteworthy.

Derek McMillan 15:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of West Sussex Teachers' Association

A tag has been placed on West Sussex Teachers' Association, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) 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 confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. TerriersFan 01:34, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Civility

Please keep your comments civil and constructive in nature. Comments such as this regarding the deletion of an article run counter to WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA and are strongly discouraged in a collaborative working environment such as Wikipedia. (aeropagitica) 21:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at West sussex teachers' association. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. --Butseriouslyfolks 22:11, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of course that would mean that the only people who could write about WSTA would be people who are not members of WSTA. Derek McMillan 15:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's the preferred approach. --Butseriouslyfolks 22:01, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

West sussex teachers' association

Please remain civil in your comments and refrain from accusing editors of bigotry and anti-unionism as you did here. I deleted the article as it was a near-identical recreation of the previously deleted article. The three sources you provided included a Wikipedia mirror and two directory-level entries that did not give any significant information about the trade union. In general, it is advisable that you not edit articles about subjects with which you are involved (please see the conflict of interest guideline). -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 01:55, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]