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A tag has been placed on Priaulx League requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Changes have been made that means the article now conforms. (Darrylgsy (talk) 08:10, 10 June 2012 (UTC))[reply]

I would like some help with a page I have written, would you be able to help please? not a problem if you cant. thanks. (Darrylgsy (talk) 15:39, 7 June 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for the note - how can I help? I will not be able to do much until tomorrow morning. Daemonic Kangaroo(talk) 17:39, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I hope I am sending these messages in the correct place? I saw that my page (Priaulx League) had been marked for speedy deletion, I think I have now corrected the mistake I had made and now it should not be deleted? I know I should have used my sandbox a little more...

1) One thing I am struggling with is the way you use a template to setup a page. In my example above I should use the football club template, but I could not find how to use it so copied another league and then made all the modifications. not the best way, but it seems to have worked.

2) lastly, in my sections some have a line going across the page, whilst others only have a short line. Could not find the code that I need to change to correct this.

3) Is there a way on Wikipedia to search all articles for specific text, for instance if I wanted to search for all references to "Priaulx League" to make sure all references point to the page I have started, how would I do this?

Any other help/feedback would be greatly appreciated. I have only just got into updating and creating pages. I have edited quite a few before I started on creating new pages. I have also created this page, which I think is all in order: Vale Recreation F.C.

Thanks in advance. (Darrylgsy (talk) 18:16, 7 June 2012 (UTC))[reply]

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Taking your points in order:

1. When posting new queries on a talk page, you should add them at the end rather than at the top. The easiest way to do this is to click on the "New section" tab that appears at the top of the talk page.
2. The "speedy deletion" tag was a little premature IMHO. In future, you should either develop an article in your sandbox or add the tag {{under construction}} at the top until the article is more or less complete.
3. The way you went about setting up the page was fine. I have never used a new page template; I prefer to either work from scratch or copy the basic layout of an existing page.
4. The lines above section headings are determined by the level of the section header, which in turn is determined by the number of = signs before and after the heading. I'm not an expert on these things, but normally we use a level two (== XXXX ==) header for most paragraphs, which adds a solid line. A sub-paragraph (level three === XXXXX ===) does not add a solid line (like the "Reply" heading above).
5. To search for all articles that refer to the Priaulx League, you type the name in the Search box at the top right and then click on the dialogue box underneath (not on the magnifying glass) – this takes you to a Search Results page ([1]).

The main (and fairly serious) thing wrong with the Priaulx League article is the total lack of references. Presumably you got the lists of competing teams, winners etc. from a published source. If so, this should be stated in the article. Likewise with the Vale Recreation page, the references are rather thin on the ground. If you're not sure how to add the references, please come back to me.

I hope this helps. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:14, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Incidentally, I don't think that you should be using the Guernsey badge in the infobox - you will have to justify fair use: see here. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 09:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have now started a deletion discussion on this article. You are welcome to contribute. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 05:21, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks I have now corrected this.(Darrylgsy (talk) 13:28, 29 June 2012 (UTC))[reply]

Thank you. I've been looking at Guernsey FC's season intermittently but I don't follow Guernsey football much as I'm English and theres not much coverage of it. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 11:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, I have now corrected this. (Darrylgsy (talk) 13:27, 29 June 2012 (UTC))[reply]

– Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:29, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - thanks for the query. To use the same reference more than once you need to first of all give it a name e.g. "REF123". You then add this into the first time the reference is used e.g. <ref name = "REF123" > Example</ref> ^[1]. For any further uses of the reference, you use <ref name = "REF123"/> ^[1] They then show thus:

See the first reference on Kevin Keegan, for an example. I hope this helps. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 08:45, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the additional reference, but I notice the establishment date is also unsourced. I can't seem to any mention of it at the group's website or other third-party sources. SwisterTwister talk 19:42, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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