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Happy editing! Hillelfrei• talk • 16:50, 1 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages! edit

 
Hello, Elizabeth fleur briggs. 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 Hillelfrei• talk • 18:25, 1 May 2020 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).Reply

May 2020 edit

  Your addition to Ivor Goodson has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Isaidnoway (talk) 05:35, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your thread has been archived edit

 

Hi Elizabeth fleur briggs! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, photo, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.


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May 2020 edit

  Your addition to Ivor Goodson has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:32, 21 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your connection to IFG? edit

What, if any, is your connection to IFG? Do you know this person personally? Are you being paid or otherwise compensated for editing this article? WP:COI and WP:PAID may apply. David notMD (talk) 21:40, 21 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

May we take this to be a declaration that you are a paid editor? —C.Fred (talk) 23:48, 21 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

IFG article edit

Elizabeth, please read what's linked above about Paid Editing and Conflict of Interest. I suppose "EA" means "Editorial Assistant"?

As you appear to be closely connected to IFG, if you want to improve this currently rather feeble article you should not edit it yourself but could help by making comments on the talk page, providing Independent Reliable Sources for any change you suggest is made or information you suggest should be included. Other editors could then use these sources to improve the article. I don't know what the previous versions looked like as apparent copyright violations have been removed, but information from someone's CV should be added selectively, only including key points which are likely to be of interest to the reader, and providing a link to the full online CV for anyone who wants every detail. Similarly full lists of publications are not appropriate, while a selective list of someone's major contributions is useful. PamD 09:03, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • I see you asked at the Teahouse about "downloading" an image. I think you meant "uploading", as in adding it to the encyclopedia. See Wikipedia:Uploading images. In a nutshell the copyright owner of the photograph needs to upload it and declare that it may be used for all purposes, including commercial use. It's much simpler if whoever owns the copyright does the uploading themself as they can then make the appropriate declarations. Just read the documentation. I hope that helps. PamD 09:11, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Multiple editor names edit

Elizabeth, have you edited the encyclopedia under different names? I see that User:Bizzybriggs and User:Elizabethjim both edited the Ivor Goodson article in 2018 and have edited nothing else. Please note that Wikipedia does not allow one person to edit using multiple identities except in specific circumstances. See Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. It could lead to you being blocked from editing and banned from creating further accounts.

This is all very sad: we have here an article on a clearly notable academic, but because one or several people over the years have tried to edit it against policy it has been hacked down to almost nothing to the extent that a perhaps careless editor proposed it for deletion as "No evidence that this academic is in any way notable". Even the fact of him editing a major journal, which is one of the crude criteria for notability for an academic (Wikipedia:Notability (academics), known as WP:PROF), got lost along the way - it was there earlier and I've just reinstated it, with a source. Please take the trouble to learn about and abide by the policies and guidelines of this encyclopedia before trying to improve your boss's article - and then follow the rules. Thanks. PamD 09:30, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

No, just noticed that it was there, unsourced because someone had removed a dead link rather than find the archived version. PamD 09:37, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Elizabeth fleur briggs! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Photograph of Professor Ivor Goodson, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.


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