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Welcome to Misplaced Pages. A page you recently created, Junket (vacation), may not conform to some of Misplaced Pages's guidelines for new pages, so it will shortly be removed (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. See WP:NAD. NawlinWiki (talk) 12:03, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Junket (vacation)

A tag has been placed on Junket (vacation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Misplaced Pages:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Team of rivals

A tag has been placed on Team of rivals, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Misplaced Pages:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. HarlandQPitt (talk) 07:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Joran van der Sloot

Some of your comments made me think you may have misread things. There's no manhunt going on for Van der Sloot, and there's not a good chance he will ever be arrested for the murder of Natalee Holloway. DeVries really screwed everything up with the confession tapes, and, even if the tapes are 100% true, the contents aren't acceptable in court. This thing with the Thai prostitution ring is separate. If it continues to get press, I'll push for building a separate article.—Kww(talk) 12:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome!

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Proper language

You, sir, are clearly a gentleman: . --jpgordon 18:46, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Some policies to check out

You seem to have gotten mad at me, and thus went and attacked many articles because you are unfamiliar with wiki policies. You should read up on them. First, it is allowed to cite yourself or a website you own under reasonable circumstances, WP:COS and WP:A, but when most of your edits are just citing theplayr.com, that goes into WP:SPA single purpose account territory. Additionally, there is no way theplayr.com is the best source for something like a European Poker Tour result, the official site or another owned by the company promoting the EPT is better for that. Third, some of theplayr.com articles are anonymous. That is obviously not as good as articles that are signed, and of course articles signed by experts are even better. WP:V and WP:RS explain that the more contentious something is, the stonger source that is needed, especially for a living person WP:BLP. No fourth party source for ten million dollars worth of losses is going to cut it, short of the new York Times or something like that. So please take a deep breath and contribute to the Misplaced Pages articles in good faith, and when your website can reliably source something that isn't extremely controversial, go ahead and add it, but if someone comes along and replaces it with MSNBC or new York Times reference, don't get all bent out of shape at them. (Also, David Williams is a Magic the gathering player too, which is why his article is (card player) and not (poker player). 2005 (talk) 00:56, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

The link on the Tom Dwan article for example seems fine because it is not overly controversial. The online poker one is also okay. It would be better though if those articles were signed, and if the CNN or the Wall Street Journal reported hte same thing, it would be reasonable to change the references to those. So if you just keep any references to articles, especially signed ones, that are factual (not opinion), then you should be fine. 2005 (talk) 01:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Poker Babes

Before this turns into an edit war, I'm asking you, 2005, and the others involved to start discussing the Poker Babes bio's at wp:poker. This is getting ridiculous.---Balloonman CSD Survey Results 01:14, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

1 hour block

Degen, You have been blocked for edit warring. Until we discuss the page and get a resolution on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poker#Poker_Babes_Bio please do not go around unilaterally reverting the pages to your desired page. This is a community project, and making changes to 30+ pages simply because a user pissed you off is unacceptable and doesn't look good. Make your case at WP:POKER, not via scores of edits that are simply going to be reverted. While Poker Babes might not be the most notable site, and you might be able to convince others of that, edit warring is not the way to do this. I made it a short block so that you can continue the discussion, but next time, if you choose to make the edits unilaterally, the block will be for longer.---Balloonman CSD Survey Results 03:15, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I do not see the reason for removing this link, which I included as part of my original version the Tiffany Michelle article. Please do not remove this again without consensus. I support the block. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 03:19, 12 January 2009 (UTC)