User talk:Bacon76

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Hello, Bacon76, 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 Masterclock, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Masterclock

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A tag has been placed on Masterclock, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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July 2013

Thanks for your message on my talk page. I have attempted to answer your points there: I hope that what I have written will help to clarify things for you.

It may also be helpful to you to give you the following information. Unfortunately, many people come to edit Wikipedia in the sincere belief that "anyone can edit Wikipedia" means "anyone can add any information they like to Wikipedia", and do not realise that there are policies and guidelines as to what is acceptable. Among other things, (1) there is a requirement that articles be only on subjects which satisfy certain notability standards, so that, for example, Microsoft is notable enough to be the subject of an article, but the shop that my sister used to own isn't, and (2) use of Wikipedia for promoting, advertising, or publicising anything is unacceptable, and indeed editors who persist in using Wikipedia for such purposes after due warning may be blocked from editing. (Promotion can take many forms, including writing promotional articles, adding promotional content to existing articles, adding links to a website for the purpose of attracting people to it, etc etc.) Unfortunately, there are rather a lot of these policies and guidelines, in my opinion far too many of them, which can be confusing for an editor with little experience of editing Wikipedia, and a good many people when first editing here quite innocently fall foul of some policy or other that they didn't know existed. (That happened to me, so I have every sympathy with anyone else who has a similar experience.) However, in your case I think the most helpful page is likely to be Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations. It is not an "official" policy or guideline, but rather an attempt by various experienced Wikipedia editors to summarise some of the relevant points to help new editors, and I think it does a good job of doing so. It also has links to various other pages that may be useful to you. I suggest that you may like to have a look at it.

A small point, but one worth mentioning, is that Wikipedia policy is that Wikipedia does not favour any one variety of English, and changing content of an article from, say, British English to American English, or Australian English to Canadian English, is considered bad practice, unless there is a good reason. (For example, if someone wrote "colour" in the article Abraham Lincoln, it would clearly make sense to change it to "color".) JamesBWatson (talk) 19:41, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]