User talk:Motormansteve

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Please see my comment at Talk:Northern Ohio Railway Museum. n2xjk (talk) 01:07, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your interest in editing here on Wikipedia. I also left a comment at the Talk:Northern Ohio Railway Museum page. Remember that the articles are encyclopedic articles about the given subject, not press releases or additional promotional sites (see WP:NOT and WP:OWN). In order for an article to remain on Wikipedia, notability must be established through reliable sources. This has not happend on the NORM article, so it runs the risk of being deleted as unsourced and as non-notable. Also, please refrain from removing tags until the issues have been addressed, particularly the issue of sources. Tags are placed in articles to bring attention to the problems that need to be addressed so more editors can help fix them. Taking the tag off prematurely will only hurt the article in the long run. I'm more than happy to work with you to improve this and any other articles you may be interested in. --JonRidinger (talk) 06:22, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While I appreciate your desire for accuracy and attention to detail, please read WP:OWN and WP:COI. No editor can claim to own an article, especially to the point of inspecting other editors' changes before "going public." Remember, the article is about the museum; it is in no way owned, maintained, or under the direction of the museum in any way, nor do museum volunteers/members have any more control over the article's content than any other Wikipedia editors. Your best bet is to make sure that the article is properly sourced. Without sources, your word alone is not good enough to withstand a deletion debate. Remember, we have no way to verify that your knowledge is accurate unless it is published somewhere (a book, a website, etc). Also use the edit summary section to let other editors know what you did and why when you edit. But I can't emphasize enough the need to have reliable sources. Right now the NORM article is tagged for notability because the article does not show why it is notable enough to be included on Wikipedia. Simply being a railroad museum does not automatically make it notable. To "prove" notability, you would need to find outside sources (i.e. not from the museum itself) that talk about it: what's special about it like unique collections, unusual or unique coverage of a topic, or something like that. --JonRidinger (talk) 07:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. –BMRR (talk) 19:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]