User talk:KingAlanI
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Thank you for your contributions, you seem to be off to a good start. Hopefully you will soon join the vast army of Wikipediholics! If you need help on how to title new articles see the naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. For general questions goto Wikipedia:Help or the FAQ, if you can't find your answer there check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions)! There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. If you have any more questions after that, feel free to ask me directly on my user talk page.
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[edit] Be Bold!!
You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 
Joe I 00:58, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Warring Factions
Warring Factions had already been deleted as non-notable in an Articles for Deletion discussion. You were recreating previously deleted content without adding anything new to address the non-notability of the subject. User:Zoe|(talk) 01:41, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merit badge
It is not true that a SM can sign off on certain mbs just because he's an SM. Per BSA rule, all MB counselors need to be registered and approved to sign mb cards. This includes SMs. Rlevse 03:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gleason Corporation
A tag has been placed on Gleason Corporation, 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 (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.
Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, articles #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. - CobaltBlueTony 01:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- It's best to establish the notability of an article's subject when you create it, and add supporting references as soon as possible, or it will get challenged, as I did. FYI. Happy editing! - CobaltBlueTony 01:55, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm relatively new to Wikiedpia editing, in the future, I'll make sure to have a 'significant' article ready to go before I subit anything. Amazing how quickly you caught that, an example of the quality of Wikipedia. :) KingAlanI 01:59, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi - a bit more detail on this I posted on the article talk page, and then realized it might make more sense here. You do seem off to a good start overall, and sorry we tend to come down so hard on articles about companies - Wikipedia gets a simply staggering amount of spam and so we do tend to jump on anything that looks like it MIGHT be spam. It's always a good idea to have some assertion of notability, and very preferably a good source, when you create an article. It doesn't have to be polished by any means, but it's very helpful to have at least one good source by our guidelines. Here's what I originally wrote:
Well, expand it quickly, and please do read our citation guidelines, our Verifiability guidelines, and our policy on original research. Unfortunately, personal interviews which have not been published and an official company website isn't enough to establish notability. I did a quick Google on the company's name in the news, and didn't find anything out there that establishes their notability by our standards. Just a couple articles of local interest. If this company has, say, been written up in a major business magazine as more than a 'puff piece', that's certainly worth mentioning. Perel 03:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
