User talk:ElliotThomas

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Your replacement of the gallery of stolen street signs was unwelcome, and has been reverted. The replacements you put in are just a random sampling of non-notable street signs. The article is about repeatedly stolen, unique, street signs. - Itsfullofstars 23:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] February 2007

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with the page Microsoft on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. ffm ^yes? 21:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits

You should discuss removing merges, changing images or removing them, and removing helpful and necesary hidden comments before doing so. It may be seen as disruptive if you do not. Hope you decide to stay! · AO ^Talk 21:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Dale Harris Educational Software

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Dale Harris Educational Software, by SchuminWeb, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Dale Harris Educational Software 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: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Dale Harris Educational Software, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Please note, this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate Dale Harris Educational Software itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. --Android Mouse Bot 2 23:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but this page simply does not fit within the usual rules, and there was not really any choice but to delete it. there is no reason why you cannot create it again, but make it a simple very basic description of the company and the products without any details about size of file, and the like, and provide references to a least one reliable source which has reviewed or talked about it in a significant way , so you can show that other people think it's important. It's the source which is the critical part. DGG 23:52, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I have also removed some links that were made inappropriately: for example, in the article on education, the link that read 'educational software" actually lead to Dale Harris Educational Software" ,which is a serious violation of WP standards.

To indicate the seriousness of this , I warn you that:

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to article on education, as specified above, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia.

• • this is vandalism and impairs the integrity of the encyclopedia. DGG 00:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)