TomCa

Hi TomCa! Great to see you at #WikiSciWomen Tuaono marama (talk) 23:15, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi

Hello Ha! Enthusiasticamateur (talk) 23:30, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello, TomCa, nice to meet you over lunch, and good luck with the next part of the session!¬¬¬¬ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pippipip (talk • contribs) 00:40, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

This will help

For your image. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:52, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

TomCa, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello TomCa, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Janet Holmes (linguist) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:04, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Great to have you aboard!

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		Congratulations on making such a good start with Wikipedia. Keep it up! Don't let editors correcting your work deter you; we're all making mistakes and learning all the time. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 11:11, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

May 2018

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:29, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Tony Silva

Hi TomCa,

I noticed you left a message at the Teahouse; I gather you were trying to add someone's name to a list, but it turns out someone else with the same name already has an article. The new article would have to be titled something like [[Tony Silva (researcher)]] or [[Tony Silva (academic)]], and you would create a piped wikilink so it looked better on the page: [[Tony Silva (academic)|Tom Silva]]. Hope that helps. Feel free to leave a message on my Talk page if you have more questions. I was recently appointed NZ Wikipedian at Large, and I'll be spending the next year running wiki events and organising editor meetups around the country, so maybe I'll see you there. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 05:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Teahouse message here.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:13, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Location for next Wellington Meetup

Kia ora, I'm letting all those that have attended during last few Wellington meetups know that the location for the next two meetups has changed. The location for the Wellington Meetup 17 August 2019 and Wellington Meetup 31 August 2019 is now in the Alexander Turnbull Library Reading Room, Level 1, National Library. The National Library net.work space area will be closed for building work from 12 August. See the meetup pages for more information. Looking forward to seeing you there. Einebillion (talk) 05:04, 3 August 2019 (UTC)