User talk:Blellum

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Blellum, 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 someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 15:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...and some comments[edit]

Snake George was deleted first time by another admin because it was copied from a website. In Wikipedia, all content have to be distributable under our copyright policy; you can't just copy-paste content from random web pages without getting the content relicenced beforehand, sorry.

I deleted the article second time because it was basically just an external link. Wikipedia content should explain itself without relying too much on external links, and this article basically entirely relied on that. It was further deletable because the article didn't really say why the article subject was notable in any way.

So, how to proceed? Take a look at other Wikipedia biographies. Make sure the article has at least basic information down, briefly. Make sure the article answers the question "why should anyone care about this person at all?"

Happy editing =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 15:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some further hints: Try to answer some basic questions, like "who was this person? when he lived? where he worked? what he did? why he did this stuff, and why was what he did impressive at all?" Read the article you wrote through: If it makes people puzzled at all on any level, it's probably bad. Also remember that articles might get deleted if there's no tying points or context: "someone did something somewhere" is not a good start for an article because no one else knows how to expand it. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 15:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing: You probably want to create the article as Hans-Joerg Wiedl, since biography policies say the biographies have to have real names of the people. Nicknames should have redirects instead (for example, Jimbo Wales redirects to Jimmy Wales.) You can always create a redirect to Snake George that points to this article, then mention the nickname on the article page.

And finally: You can use your user space for preparing articles before you "release" them for others to edit. For example, put your content down to User:Blellum/Snake George, work on it until it looks like a respectable article stub, then use the Move command to move it to its final supposed location. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 15:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK - I'll start here presently[edit]

Hans-Joerg Wiedl aka Snake George, a snake expert, resident on the island of Cyprus.

When he first came to Cyprus, as a UN soldier in 1973 he was struck by the beauty of the island, and moved permanently in 1986.

He has been totally committed to the herpetology of the island. Though this has been fraught with set-backs (see below).

His motto is "Without information , there is no protection of nature and environment"

Blellum 19:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick Greenough[edit]

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Speedy deletion of Michelle de Bruin - Stonecarver[edit]

A tag has been placed on Michelle de Bruin - Stonecarver requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Notability of Thomas Greenough[edit]

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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. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 12:31, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Blellum! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. 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 this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 938 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Paul Goodfellow - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 01:28, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Paul Goodfellow[edit]

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Fails WP:BIO, even before most of the content was removed

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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland[edit]

I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at the WP Scotland noticeboard. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 16:03, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help me![edit]

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Please help me with...Changing the title of a page, there is a typo...

Blellum (talk) 03:48, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Moving a page. eurodyne (talk) 04:07, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...all done

Proposed deletion of Michelle de Bruin[edit]

The article Michelle de Bruin has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no evidence of meeting WP:CREATIVE

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. DGG ( talk ) 07:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Michelle de Bruin with wolf in progress - mandwolf.jpg[edit]

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Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge[edit]

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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

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WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest[edit]

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