User talk:Deirdre12

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Hello, Deirdre12, 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:

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[edit] Page deletion

Regarding your recent creation and blanking of the page Black women architects. First, the proper way to delete a page is never to simply make it blank. Blank pages are not deleted, and still appear in "Random article" clicks, potentially confusing readers. Check out the page Wikipedia:Deletion policy for more info on how and when to list pages for deletion. In the case of the redirect you created, it is not necessary to delete a redirect because the title is spelled or formatted wrong. In fact, misspellings and spelling variations are one of the main reasons to create redirects. Wikipedia's own search software isn't very powerful, and redirects take up much of the slack. To see when a redirect should be deleted, check out Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion#When should we delete a redirect?. Happy editing! — Swpb^talk.edits 00:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)