User talk:Hockeyben

Hello, Hockeyben, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia!

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Good luck and happy changing! Barras (talk) 16:01, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

RFD[change source]

Hi there! Please see here. -Barras (talk) 16:01, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey[change source]

It is great that you are here and want to work on ice hockey articles. But remember we aren't just a copy of en so bringing over just the first sentence or two isn't really a good idea. Just a reminder to at least try to write simple english that is why we exist. We don't try to have every article en has, and it is more important that the few articles we do have follow simple english rather than just being a copy of en. Or we run the risk of having the entire wiki deleted if we are just a copy. Not just a single article. -DJSasso (talk) 22:05, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. The first two sentences are intended as a base for the article to build upon. Reading through the first couple senteneces on the Bryan Trottier and Marcel Dionne articles, they appear to use simple english (correct me if I'm wrong) and look no different than they would if I had typed the text myself, as they are just a barebones overview of the players career. --Hockeyben (talk) 22:13, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the wording is fairly simple. But if the article is the same as what they can read on en then we don't need the article because a reader could just read the en.wiki one. It is actually one of our speedy deletion criteria. It is better for you to write your own 6 or 7 sentence paragraph on a subject than to just copy over single sentences. -DJSasso (talk) 22:32, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I got it. --Hockeyben (talk) 22:58, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copy-paste[change source]

Hi, I see other editors have mentioned this. Please stop copying and pasting content from English Wikipedia without simplifying it. Simple articles should not be exactly the same as En articles. I nominated your recent 1962 and 1962 World Ice Hockey Championships for deletion. They are exact copies right down to a spelling error. Gotanda (talk) 01:13, 8 October 2011 (UTC) Update: See please for more. Gotanda (talk) 01:47, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

External links --> Other websites[change source]

Hi, just a reminder to make sure if you are going to put links to other websites, name the section "Other websites" instead of "External links". You did not do this on Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL), but I have fixed it for you. Also, please remember to simplify articles that you have copy-pasted from ENWP. Regards, Orash matash 18:18, 9 October 2011 (UTC) I like... Sleeping![reply]

RfD nomination of Template:Allan Cup[change source]

An editor has requested deletion of Template:Allan Cup, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2015/Template:Allan Cup and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. Auntof6 (talk) 02:53, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]