Tallguyuk

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Rock

I've restore the Rock article. We get a lot of test edits where people create an article with a common English word that has nothing to do with travel, which is why this article was probably speedy deleted. Sorry for the confusion. -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:13, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, exactly. An article on "Rock" with no content looked useless to me. My fault; I did no do due diligence before making the deletion. Please forgive me. All the best, Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:13, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

It's pretty clear how this mistake arose. There are a couple of other articles here that can readily provoke a similar reaction, there is one in particular that sets me off everytime I see it in the list of recent edits and like this one it is entirely benign. Tallguyuk, some people just make up silly names sometimes, Ikan Kekek just thought it was yet another of them. Easy mistake and you can be quite sure that he did it entirely unaware that it was a legitimate article. There are a few like Duck, Chicken and Lizard that might make you wonder what's up. 2 days ago an article called Cat was deleted. There is a South Hero, but no Central Hero, there is Big Stone City, and a Stone Mountain

I have been tidying up a couple of the articles in the region that you have been editing recently. I noticed that you have been adding postcodes. We normally don't do that here (see MoS as they are considered to be of limited usefulness to the traveller, and yet take up space. As per out listing guidelines the Addresses should just be the street and number, not a full postal address.

The same sort of Policy applies to using the destination name in the address supplied for a listing. For example 999A Crusher Rd, Rock, we just describe as 999A Crusher Rd. But if is 999A Crusher Rd, Gravel Pit Downs, Rock, then we would use 999A Crusher Rd, Gravel Pit Downs. If it was 999A Crusher Rd, Gravel Pit Downs, South Rock, then we would describe it as South Rock, because that is not Rock, it is South Rock. I am not sure about Hard Rock, or Soft Rock, you will need to ask one of the others here about that. Also with the <listing> formatting it is best not to muck about with that as the next person who comes along might change it a little bit and then half the article might end up with broken formatting. Have a look here at how I re-edited your Golf Course listing and I think you will understand. -- cheers Felix (talk) 21:25, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice on the postcodes - I hadn't got to that bit of the MoS yet so that's useful advice. And I can quite understand the issue with the deletion, though I'm sure you can appreciate how frustrating it was at the time. Tallguyuk (talk) 21:47, 21 January 2013 (UTC)