Welcome

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December 2007

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page Electric guitar do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Lilac Soul (talk contribs count) 13:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Artenol for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Artenol is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Artenol until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to mecontribs) 14:38, 25 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Why Artenol is a valid article for Wikipedia

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Artenol Magazine, a nationally distributed quarterly publication that is now printing its seventh edition (Winter 2016), was created in 2015 by conceptual artist Alexander Melamid. Melamid is a world class artist whose work, with his former partner, Vitaly Komar, is in every major museum in the Western world (please see their Wiki listings). Granted that the magazine is new on the scene. But it is unlike any other arts publication currently in print, if only for its distinctive die-cut covers. That Wiki would deem its inclusion in its listings inappropriate is, frankly, hard to understand. Mr. Woodward, the Wikimedia Commons admin who has opened this inquiry into Artenol's validity as a Wiki entry, appears to be an expert in lighthouses and vintage graphics software. Forgive, Mr. Woodward, but do you know anything about the contemporary art world? What qualifies you to pass judgment on the worthiness of a publication like Artenol? If you would like to learn more about the publication, perhaps you will contact me directly at ddann@artenol.org. Yes, I am the editor of the magazine which may, in your eyes, taint me as a shill seeking only to promote the publication. But I can assure that is not the case. This is a valid and successful publication, and it deserves to be part of the information that Wiki offers to its users. I look forward to hearing from you. Bloomsdisco (talk) 01:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)Reply