User talk:Clare.s.hudson

Welcome

Hello, Clare.s.hudson, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been reverted for this very reason.

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Proposed deletion of Durham Public Library

The article Durham Public Library has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

unremarkable local library

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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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 {{proposed deletion/dated}} 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. Tbennert (talk) 21:50, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Piccadilly Circus. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Grim²³ ★ 23:29, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sourced to "Search Office Space"

Hi Clare,

You obviously have some useful contributions to make to various articles about places and buildings. But there's a problem with your sources: everything seems to be sourced to your own contributions to a blog on a commercial firm's website. I don't think it meets the criteria for WP:Reliable Sources.

I was thinking about putting a message on the "Reliable Sources" noticeboard, but then decided to Assume Good Faith and discuss this with you here.

What I was drafting was something like this:

Search Office Space

An editor has been adding information to a range of articles, citing this website - see almost every entry at Special:Contributions/Clare.s.hudson. It is the "blog" of a "commercial real estate brokerage"'s website. It cites no sources itself. Is it a WP:RS? A further complication is that the editor who is adding these items to Wikipedia also appears to be the author of all the items she cites: unfortunately despite editing WP for several months she has not yet learned how to format references properly so her name is never visible as their author.

It would be much more useful to Wikipedia if you would cite your external sources of information, the newspaper articles, government announcements or whatever from which you are writing your blog posts. I'm pretty sure that the "Reliable Sources" experts will not agree that your blog posts are a "Reliable Source", so most of your references might have to be removed. If you are here to help Wikipedia, rather than to promote the website on which you write, please give reliable sources of information for what you are adding to articles.

Please also cite your references properly, rather than just adding a bare URL (which is vulnerable to WP:Link rot). (WP:AGF says that you haven't learned how to do so; another interpretation is that you can't be bothered to do so; a third possibility is that you don't want to make it too obvious that they are all your own writing!) Thanks. PamD (talk) 19:12, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of SOS Worldwide Ltd for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article SOS Worldwide Ltd is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SOS Worldwide Ltd until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Pontificalibus (talk) 14:43, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]