Dougwillis1936

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Hello, Dougwillis1936, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of St. Thomas (Texas), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of St. Thomas (Texas)

A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of St. Thomas (Texas) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for four days or more and it is not presently under discussion at Categories for discussion, or at disambiguation categories.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Douglas Willis 12:56, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Dougwillis1936. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by LukeSurl ^{t c} 16:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

Userbox

Hi Doug,

I've copied the code you wrote in Template:User Dougwillis1936 over to Template:User UST TX. This way the template is for everyone from your university, not just you! You can now add the userbox to your userpage by adding the code {{User UST TX}} to your page. As a housekeeping thing, I've set Template:User Dougwillis1936 to be deleted, everything you need should be in Template:User UST TX.

By the way, while adding signatures ~~~~ to your contributions on talk pages is great, you don't need to sign things you write in templates or in the main articles.

Hope this is helpful. Let me know if I can help out any more, --LukeSurl ^{t c} 20:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:User Dougwillis1936

A tag has been placed on Template:User Dougwillis1936 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it must be substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{substituted}}</noinclude>).

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page's talk page, where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. LukeSurl ^{t c} 20:43, 15 August 2013 (UTC)