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Speedy deletion nomination of Ace Cougar

A tag has been placed on Ace Cougar requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, 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 organizations and companies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Your edits to British Rail Class 180‎

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to British Rail Class 180‎. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you.

Keith D (talk) 20:29, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: Powers (TV series)

Hi Alzarian16, the short answer is no. The link was to footage uploaded by a fan group, who are most likely not to have permission from the copyright holder to upload the work. The relevant Misplaced Pages guideline is at Misplaced Pages:External links#Restrictions on linking which explains further why Misplaced Pages does not link to such content. Also, please consider if the references used are reliable sources, for example IMDb user reviews wouldn't be. Hope that helps, mattbr 09:44, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

In the link you provided, IMDb is being used to provide general info about productions (i.e. they exist) rather than critical response. The comments cited are user-generated and are not representative or authoritative because anybody can post whatever they want (and you can always find someone who loved/hated something, so the same could be said of any production). mattbr 10:59, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

The new link seems OK (although not the best for viewing figures) and you need to be careful about interpreting what was said (there is no mention of "average" viewing figures). Also, the statement that it was "generally well received by viewers" is not supported by the reference given. I would suggest you use the new link to provide some production information as this is the primary topic of it. However, I am struggling to find other (online) references that would help develop the article. I would also recommend the use of citation templates such as {{cite web}} to provide a bit more info about the references rather that just the links. mattbr 20:57, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, you've done well to find the references you have. There may be some more info in offline sources, which may be worth perusing. In the meantime, I would suggest adding an infobox ({{Infobox television}} in this case) to summarise some of the information along with the ref formatting. mattbr 17:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

thank you

Thank you for your insightful comments at Phase II of "BLP madness" ;) My theory is that most new editors want to keep encyclopedia unreferenced content. Okip (formerly Ikip) 19:39, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

That's a pretty convincing theory. It certainly applied to me; when my first article had a PROD put on it I fought tooth and nail to get it kept (and was ultimately successful, thanks in large part to a number of new references I found - arguably PROd working at its best). But it isn't just new editors who want unreferenced contetn kept, a number of established ones do too - take a look at the response to this AfD nomination. The current BLP debate seems to me to be yet another aspect of the running deletionism v inclusionism debate, and I favour inclusionism in this case. Alzarian16 (talk) 22:57, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

that is reassuring to know that established editors want this too.

talking about established editors, most editors have email activated, and one arbcom member recently said to me, to paraphrase, that most established editors talk offline. Okip (formerly Ikip) 10:02, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

BLP cleanup thanks

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Thanks for your help at WP:Mistagged BLP cleanup. Keep up the good work! Gigs (talk) 16:40, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Lothian Buses

Hi

I thought I'd ask your opinion on this as I noticed you making edits to Lothian Buses tonight. I was thinking about adding a section to the article about the company introducing the new ticketing machines to the buses, known as the "Wayfarer 200" ticket machines. According to the companys website, they are introducing these as part of the National Concessionary Travel Scheme and the machines are being provided by Transport Scotland. Do you reckon that this would be worth even a small mention in the article? --5 albert square (talk) 23:37, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it would be worth mentioning, although it doesn't really justify more than a couple of sentences. One possible location would be in the 'Current vehicles' subsection as this already includes information on vehicle features such as CCTV. It would also be a good idea to quote a reliable source for the information so that it isn't removed as unreliable. Alzarian16 (talk) 18:50, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for that, I'll add that later on. I should be able to reference it against the companys own website :) --5 albert square (talk) 21:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for London Country North East

On March 19, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article London Country North East, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Lacey Brown

Thank you for your kind comments. As I saw the article originally I did think that it would be a delete without much argument, but as it has been significantly improved I can't see the reason for the debate any longer, but then I am not in the USA so am not aware of the media coverage this person receives, in contrast it is good to see the debate flourish as it shows how open Wiki is. Sorry for babbling on but I am still new and wanted to say thanks. --Wintonian (talk) 22:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

No trouble, I agree with pretty much everything you've said. I'm not in the USA either, but I always like to see an article survive if it deserves to. Alzarian16 (talk) 07:33, 20 March 2010 (UTC)