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Welcome!

Hello, LiteratureWorm, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Wendy Holden, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! VQuakr (talk) 17:59, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

September 2011

Status and Advice

As reviewing administrator, I fixed it by rewriting, since she seems to be notable according to WP:AUTHOR. (I would have found it just the same if you had not removed the speedy notice).

A Wikipedia article to be written like an encyclopedia article, not a press release--don't praise the person, say in plain language what they have accomplished. Remember never to copy from a web site -- first it's a copyright violation, but, even if you are in a position to give us permission according to WP:DCM, the tone will not be encyclopedic and the material will not be suitable, as was the case here.

Include only material that would be of interest to a general reader coming across the mention of the subject and wanting the sort of information that would be found in an encyclopedia. Keep in mind that the goal of an encyclopedia is to say things in a concise manner, which is not the style of press releases or web sites, which are usually more expansive.

As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest or as a paid press agent, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. If you think you can do it right according to our guidelines, do so, but expect the article to be carefully checked for objectivity. If you have sourced information to add, do so, but be careful!

If you own the rights to a photograph of the subject that you are prepared to donate to Wikipedia, it would be good to add it to the article--but follow in every detail the requirements of WP:DCM--they are interpreted very literally and restrictively. DGG ( talk ) 18:41, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If I can help you further, let me know on my user talk page. DGG ( talk ) 18:41, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 == September 2011 ==
-[[Image:Information.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] Hi, and thank you for [[Special:Contributions/LiteratureWorm|your contributions]] to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give [[:Wendy Holden]] a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "[[cut and paste]] move", and it is undesirable because it splits the [[Help:Page history|page history]], which is needed for attribution and various other purposes.  Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be ''moved'' to a new title together with their edit history.
-In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the [[Help:Moving a page|"Move" tab]] at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirect]] from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|requested moves]] to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at [[Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen]]. Thank you. <!-- Template:uw-c&pmove--> [[User:VQuakr|VQuakr]] ([[User talk:VQuakr|talk]]) 18:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)