User talk:Aqualand
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Also, thank you for adding the *Aqualand Bahía de Cadiz, Andalucía and Aqualand Bahía de Cadiz, Andalucía articles. Wikipedia always needs additional substantive material.
Having said that, you need to go back and look at these two articles immediately:
- We don't need two articles on the same water park, so you should merge the content and have an administrator delete the other article. Alternately, there's also a merge articles procedure, but I don't know exactly how it works.
- You personal experiences and opinions don't belong in an article -- put them on your new user page instead.
- See these Wikipedia policies and how-tos:
- Wikipedia:Notability -- is this water park important enough to merit its own article? Your article should make its notability clear or someone will delete it. "Aqualand cost 1 billion euros to build; over 5 million people visit every year."
- Wikipedia:Verifiability -- anything you say has to be backed up by reputable source like a book, article, etc.
- Wikipedia:No original research -- your own experience doesn't count -- you base the article on other sources
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view -- your opinion doesn't matter; Wikipedia doesn't have an opinion either -- at most it might quote another's opinion. So if you say the park is good, that's unacceptable. If you write "In 2006, Aqualand won the best water park in Spain award, awarded by the London Times (or King of Spain, etc.)" -- that's OK.
I hope this helps. And of course, any place I wrote "your opinion" or "your experience" -- well that applies to me and every other Wikipedia editor as well.
I hope you'll keep adding to Wikipedia.
--A. B. 18:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
- It looks like your *Aqualand Bahía de Cadiz, Andalucía article was deleted before I could even finish writing this. New articles can get deleted in a heartbeat if they don't meet Wikipedia norms, so I enocurage you to make some quick changes to your other article.
