User talk:Dogwatch2

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Copyright

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Knightsbridge School article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page.Telly addict 18:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rodda's

A tag has been placed on Rodda's, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, 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, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Quietust 21:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steinsky

Thank you for your comments. I note you have an impressive list of entries to your name and am grateful for your advice.

Rgs.

Verifiability

Hi Dogwatch2, I have a few comments to make which may help:

On Westminster you use lots of words like "epicentre", "prime", "capital", and so on. You spend a disproportionate amount of time saying how important it is, when you should simply be letting the facts speak for themselves. If the article states that the area contains many national instutions, several large retail areas, and has high property values (backed up with a reference), readers can conclude for themselves just how important it is. And if the article states in its introduction that it is important, there is no need to keep mentioning it.
You need to back up the claims you make with sources -- books, newspaper articles, academic journals, opinion polls, the websites of the organisations being described, and so on.
You don't need to include links to the websites of every organisation in an area -- they can go on those organisations' own Wikipedia articles.
Consider the notability of what you're adding, and whether it's suitable for an encyclopaedia. We are an encyclopaedia, not Hello! or Chelsea Life magazine -- the topiary in a D-list celeb's "beautiful garden" is not encyclopaedic, and you can't claim the gardens to be "beautiful" anyway, unless you have a reference backing up the claim!
Because we're not Hello! magazine, you need to write in a formal tone, and not use phrases like "X is the must be seen in area for the rich and famous"
I have marked Global Ultra Prime Residential Area as a potential deletion candidate. You need to tell us who coined this term, which organisations use it, and what purposes they use it for. According to Google, Wikipedia is the only website that uses this term, suggesting that this term is not notable enough to be included in an encyclopaedia.

Please also avoid using Wikipedia as a vehicle for advertising. Thanks, Joe D (t) 23:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Knightsbridge School

The article Knightsbridge School has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

promotional article on preparatory school, which corresponds to an American high school. Normally we'd merge, but not appropriate in this case

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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 ) 17:48, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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