User talk:Rexroad

Welcome!

Hello, Rexroad, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

Apology and advice

I reverted your edits to Adolf Hitler. For some reason, I used rollback (an automatic tool for administrators, used for undoing vandalism) on your first edit. I apologize for that: I hit the button too hastily. Having looked at your edits, I've no doubt that they were intended as genuine efforts to improve the encyclopaedia. Unfortunately, they didn't match Wikipedia policy, which states that all articles must conform to a neutral point of view and must not contain any original research. So we can't put in our own opinions, even if they are majority opinions. A statement such as "Hitler's words cannot be trusted", no matter how true, and how universally accepted, doesn't conform to Wikipedia policy, though it would be fine on other sites. "Professor X in his 1997 book __________ argued that Hitler's words could not be trusted" would conform to our policy, as would any concrete facts of bad things that Hitler did. I suggest you read the two pages I've linked to, and go to article discussion pages (also called talk pages), which you'll find by clicking "discussion" at the top, near the left, from any article. Again, sorry to have given you such an unfriendly start here. If you have any questions, please direct them to Talk:Adolf Hitler. Thanks. Musical L inguist 20:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding edits made to Charles arthur willard

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Rexroad! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule \bexample\.com, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links policy for more information. If the link was to an image, please read Wikipedia's image tutorial on how to use a more appropriate method to insert the image into an article. If your link was intended to promote a site you own, are affiliated with, or will make money from inclusion in Wikipedia, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 16:12, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Joseph Wenzel

A tag has been placed on Joseph Wenzel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with Joseph Wenzel. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you.redacteur ^{(talk) 17:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)} 17:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Adolf Hitler. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Bart133 ^{(t) (c)} 18:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Dale Hample

A tag has been placed on Dale Hample, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia per CSD A7.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.
Gonzo fan2007 ^{talk ♦ contribs} 23:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Rexroad! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 43 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Charles Arthur Willard - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Robin Rowland - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Joseph W. Wenzel - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:23, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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