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Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:19, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin, I'm a new Wikipedia contributor, and I'm confused. It appears that somehow I have "published" the same (almost) article twice on Wikipedia: (1) "United States Army National Guard units with lineages dating to the War of 1812," which is the one you contacted me about; and (2) "Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812." I don't know how this happened. The second one is more complete than the first one (it has photographs of Distinctive Unit Insignia, and the External Links section has been shortened and brought into compliance with Wiki policies). Both articles come up on a Google search for "Army National Guard War of 1812." I would like to remove "United States Army National Guard units with lineages dating to the War of 1812." Can you help me? If you can help straighten this out, I expect to get back to you for some thoughts/suggestions concerning how to improve my article so that I get a better grade than C. Many thanks. (Mmcmartin35 (talk) 15:28, 19 December 2011 (UTC))[reply]

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Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, United States Army National Guard units with lineage dating to the War of 1812. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812 - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Calabe 1992 16:20, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Calabe1992, I want "United States Armuy National Guard units with lineage dating to the War of 1812" to be deleted ASAP. I don't know how it got "published"; it's just an earlier version of the other article on the same subject ("Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812"). I'm new at this, and I must have done something inadvertently to get the earlier version up on the web. Sorry!!! Please, go ahead and do what has to be done to get it deleted. Many thanks. (Mmcmartin35 (talk) 16:27, 21 December 2011 (UTC))[reply]

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