User talk:Jsahrrdc

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Good luck, and have fun. --Lando5 02:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sustainability at Berea College

hi -- I think the problem that has been raised in the deletion discussion is that this article is unlikely to ever fulfill wikipedia's requirement's for inclusion -- see what wikipedia is not. An essay about campus sustainability is simply not an appropriate wikipedia article; wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place to host essays. I would suggest finding a host site like wetpaint and setting up a free wiki page there. Best of luck, bikeable (talk) 17:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a User talk: subpage: User talk:Jsahrrdc/Sustainability at Berea College Franamax 18:35, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have copied your work from the mainspace into a sub-page for you. This is on the assumption that your assignment was to create a working Wikipedia article, not to get the article actually accepted in Wikipedia. The other editors are right that this will probably never meet notability criteria.

Also if your assignment was to learn how to use Wikipedia, then you should already know how to create a sub-page by yourself! :)

The sub-page I added may be removed by any of the other editors involved in the discussion if they don't agree with my actions. You should remove it yourself once your assignment is completed. Or try again to put it in the mainspace and have some good solid arguments as to why it is notable. Franamax 18:40, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also if I am right that this was just a class assignment to create a Wikipedia article then you should be honest when you submit your assignment and include a note that you accidentally disrupted the mainspace because you didn't familiarize yourself first with how WP works and where you can put works-in-progress, also per Bikeable above, you shouldn't really even be doing this on Wikipedia. Franamax 18:54, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

If you want to play nice with others :) :

1. Create a User sub-page for your article:

- edit your user page, add "Our first project is located here

- go to the mainspace page you created and copy to clipboard

- go to your User page, click on the red text that says "located here" - this lets you edit your new sub-page

- paste in the copy from the mainspace

- bob's-yer-uncle, you can work on that one to your heart's content

2. Mark your mainspace article for speedy deletion:

- edit the main article, at the top put xxdb-authoryy, xx is { (open brace) repeated twice, yy is } (close brace) repeated twice (if I put the real thing here I might tag your talk page!)

- also consider blanking the rest of the page

- check out speedy deletion, you are asking for speedy deletion under category G.7., this page also describes the db-author template

- add a note to the AfD discussion saying "authors request speedy deletion"

- might not work because a) there are several different authors for the page; b) it is already in AfD discussion

- but at least you have tried

3. Get rid of the User talk sub-page I made for you:

- let me know, I think I can add the db-author tag to it since I made it

- you can request it be removed yourself, ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page

4. REMEMBER before you submit to class, check the "history" tab to be sure some fun person hasn't helped you out by adding a discussion of red goats on the moon or something. Hmmm, maybe I'll try that myself ;)

5. Try again to get your article accepted in the mainspace:

- don't give up, but you will need to make it comply with WP:NOTE

- so you must make the article itself argue for why it is notable

- the sustainability movement IS notable, why is your part in it notable?

- is there a general US college initiative that you are part of? (I haven't actually read your work :)

- are you showing leadership in any particular aspect?

- maybe you can make it a sub-article of Berea College?

Have fun & good luck! Franamax 12:06, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]