User talk:Arthur7
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[edit]Hello Arthur7, welcome to Wikipedia!
I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!
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Murder, She Wrote Wiki
[edit]Hi there, i just founded a new wiki on Murder, She Wrote and The Law & Harry McGraw, given that you have been a frequent contributor to the Murder, She Wrote Article here on wikipedia. I thought u might be interested in becoming a contributor. Thanks Pat 19:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion of Pirate Captain
[edit]A tag has been placed on Pirate Captain, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read our the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.
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I appreciate your trying to stop advertising, as is the rules, but i was in no way trynig to advertise the pirate captain. I am simply a fan of the Pirates! in an Adventure with... series and, after 4 books, felt the Pirate Captain deserved a page. Also, I had only just started it and was certain to reword it anyway. I had only done one edit. And I was soon to sort it out properly. I'm really not anything to do with the books' publication and the sentence I'd written can't have suggested that. If there was also a problem with the content, I can only say that other characters from fiction have a page (i.e Arthur Dent, of 5 books and a tv series, first person that came to mind) and the Pirate Captain is now a willing candidate. I also had back up sources to show his truths. If this was advertising I'm sure that every character/film/dvd page is also advertising. Was there any other reasons for its deletion?
Arthur7 (talk) 21:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- Well, it is actually hard to say why the page was deleted. jusding from your talk page i tagged it for removal at the 23th of May, meaning it was removed over a week ago. In all due honesty i have no idea what the contents were, or what it was about, as i have tagged numerous other pages in the meantime. If you have a copy, i would be glad to tell you what was wrong with it though Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 19:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- To save you wondering, the following was the full text of the article:
- ((www.piratecaptain.co.uk))
- ((http://www.gideondefoe.com))
- {{Infobox character | name = Pirate Captain'''
- | first appearance = ''[[the Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists]]''
- | other appearances = ''[[the Pirates! in an Adventure with Whailing]]''''[[the Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists]]''''[[the Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon]]|
- | gender = Male
- }}
- It was deleted under WP:CSD#A1, (aka "little content"). If you want to work on the article, I'd suggest creating it at User:Arthur7/Pirate Captain, then moving it to article space when it's ready. — iridescent 19:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks Iridescent, that clears up the problem :) Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 19:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- To save you wondering, the following was the full text of the article:
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