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August 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page IMAX has been reverted.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Boryana Dineva (October 9)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
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Speedy deletion nomination of 富

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on 富 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Machine translations

Please do not create articles like History of science and technology in Spain unless you are able to tidy and improve the translation yourself. Machine translations can be very difficult to tidy up, and the articles you are creating are so massive that nobody will ever want to attempt to do so. WP:TRANSLATION has the correct procedure for creating articles when you are not able to translate yourself--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to second what Jac16888 said. I just spent 45 minutes cleaning up all the mess Content Transcrapulator left behind on History of railroads in Bolivia. The majority of references were not translated and what was translated was badly mangled.

What's worse, I didn't see that there already was an article on the same subject until after I spent my time... Rail transport in Bolivia. There is also an article, Science and technology in Spain, that was already created and duplicates some of History of science and technology in Spain.

Jac16888 I've put the newly "translated" article up for deletion as duplicates. There is stuff that could be merged, but its so badly mangled, it will take alot of work. Bgwhite (talk) 05:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also added Customs of ancient Egypt to the list. Bgwhite (talk) 06:07, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, History of railroads in Bolivia

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, History of railroads in Bolivia. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Rail transport in Bolivia. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Rail transport in Bolivia – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Your contributed article, History of science and technology in Spain

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, History of science and technology in Spain. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Science and technology in Spain. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Science and technology in Spain – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Bgwhite (talk) 05:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Customs of ancient Egypt

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Customs of ancient Egypt. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Ancient Egypt. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Ancient Egypt – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Bgwhite (talk) 06:03, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Saved to Draft

Hello Rigsofrods, the article is certainly an interesting topic, and it has potential. I therefore saved it from deletion and moved it to Draft:Customs of ancient Egypt. Please see my notes at Draft talk:Customs of ancient Egypt and feel free to improve the article. You may want to turn to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt, where you will find like minded people. — Sebastian 08:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

123.gif

I'm an admin at Commons, so I may be able to help. Is "123.gif" a fully descriptive name, something that's in line with how we usually name files, as described at Commons:Commons:File naming#Naming? If so, upload it at whatever random name you want, and then leave a note at my Commons talk page; I'll move the file to 123.gif, since I'm able to override the blacklist. However, it would help if you'd describe the file itself before doing this, since it will be easier if I can tell you (before the upload) whether I agree or disagree with your idea of calling it 123.gif. Nyttend (talk) 01:34, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question about restoring article from a redirect

I see that you restored Burgundian language (Germanic) to an article rather than a redirect, in your edit summary saying "some articles are shorted than this article". However, it is not simply a question of whether the length of the article is greater than that of some other articles: it is a matter of whether there is enough information specific to this language which cannot conveniently be included in the main article. Can you explain why you think repeating substantially the same content in two different places is an improvement? Repetition of content in different places has several disadvantages, such as making it difficult to ensure that corrections, updates, etc, are applied in both places, and if differences develop between the two versions readers are likely to fail to find both versions, and therefore may well miss some of the content. If, however, the content is all in one place, with a redirect from the other, no such difficulties arise: anyone looking for information in either place will find their way to the one place where there is information on the subject. Can you suggest any reason why the redirect should not be restored? In addition, the content which you restored is unsourced, and one of the statements which you restored has even been tagged for citation since September 2011. When unsourced content has been challenged and removed, it is considered bad practice to restore it without providing a source. That principle is mentioned in several places, including in the policy on verifiability of content, which says "Attribute ... any material challenged or likely to be challenged to a reliable, published source ... The cited source must clearly support the material as presented in the article." The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:10, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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