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October 2011 edit

 

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Lehigh County Historical Society, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.

Deletion pending for File:Harry C Trexler Portrait.jpg edit

Hello, Sarah E. Thayer. Some time ago, a file you uploaded — File:Harry C Trexler Portrait.jpg — was tagged with {{OTRS pending}}, indicating that you (or perhaps the copyright holder if you did not create this image) submitted a statement of permission to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Though there is often a backlog processing messages received at this address, we should have received your message by now.

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If we don't hear from you within one week, the file will be deleted. If we can help you, please feel free to ask at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 23:05, 24 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

File permission problem with File:Harry C. Trexler Portrait.jpg edit

 

Thanks for uploading File:Harry C. Trexler Portrait.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

  • make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:37, 4 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hello Sarah, I have not been able to find an email in the OTRS system for this file. If you have sent the email, you should have received an automatic response containing a ticket number. If you have this ticket number, please let me know what it is. If you have information about when the image was first published (if ever) and who created it, that information would also be very helpful. Thanks, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:42, 4 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

Donald P. Miller moved to draftspace edit

An article you recently created, Donald P. Miller, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia), as is positioning of the article from a neutral point of view, with neutral language. I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 22:15, 3 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jake, Thank you so much for your timely response regarding the Donald P. Miller article. I appreciate your concerns and will be taking this back to the team who researched and developed the article. We are big fans and supporters of Wikipedia and want this article to be the best it can possibly be. As we work to comply, it would be extremely helpful if you could be a little more specific about exactly what your concerns are related to the sources. Also, if there are any other suggestions you could give us, it would be of great help, and we would be very appreciative. Thank you again for your guidance. We admire all the good work you and your colleagues do at Wikipedia.--Sarah Sarah E. Thayer (talk) 16:58, 7 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Donald P. Miller edit

  Hello, Sarah E. Thayer. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Donald P. Miller, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:01, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply