User talk:Abiwelch

Hello, Abiwelch! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, your recent edit to the article Jon Johanson was unconstructive, and has been reverted. There are at least three reasons why your edit was unacceptable:

You removed perfectly good article content to make way for the text you substituted. It is not acceptable to remove content of articles without good reason.
The person about whom you wrote does not appear to satisfy Wkipedia's notability guidelines. We do not have articles on anything and anybody, only on subjects which have received significant attention. Please read at least the general notability guideline before writing about a new topic, and if you are intending to write about a person it may also be a good idea to look at the notability guideline for people.
Your edit may well have been intended as promotion of the person about whom it was written. Wikipedia is not an advertising service, and we do not accept material intended mainly to promote or advertise anyone or anything.

You will find more information about how to edit and how not to edit in the pages linked in the welcome message I have posted above. Also please feel very welcome to contact me on my talk page if you wish to ask for any further help. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Jon Johanson. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you want to create a new article about Jon Johnson (songwriter), do so, but don't write over existing articles. Also, if you are going to create a new article, be sure you have reliable sources demonstrating notability. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:38, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jon Johanson (writer/performer)

In the article Jon Johanson (writer/performer) you have provided links to what you clearly intend to be sources for your material. However, none of your links actually link to pages which support the facts for which they are supposed to be sources. For example, http://www.kentonline.co.uk/ merely links to a web site home page which does not mention Jon Johanson at all. It may be that the information is available somewhere on that website, but a "source" needs to actually provide the information, not just provide a web page which can be the starting point for a search by anyone wishing to find the information. If you have suitable sources showing notability for Johanson then please provide them: the links you have provided do not do the job. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:54, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Jon Johanson (writer/performer)

The article Jon Johanson (writer/performer) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of notability. No sources given in article for any of the information, and no independent sources found on searching.

While all 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 {{dated prod}} 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 {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]