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  Hello Bmurphy380! Your additions to Eastern Airlines Flight 494 have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Chirodectes

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Hi, Bmurphy. I appreciate your interest in documenting marine biology, but please do not use Facebook as a source – let alone the only source – to cite a statement. At present, there do not seem to be any reliable sources discussing this video, and as such, a mention should not currently be included in the article. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 04:01, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Also, please heed what Diannaa told you about copyright. You uploaded File:Memoirsqueensla51haml 0132.jpg to Commons, which is patently not your own work, yet you claimed otherwise when uploading. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 04:27, 7 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Notability

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Hi, Bmurphy. I've added the {{notability}} maintenance template to the Draft:Northwest Airlines flight 969 article and the Eastern Airlines Flight 494 article. While both are interesting incidents to read about, I don't think that they meet Wikipedia's notability policy on what should or should not be included in Wikipedia. If you are able to identify additional sources that show widespread independent coverage of these incidents, you should try adding them to the articles as soon as possible, because the draft article is unlikely to be accepted without that, and the non-draft article is likely to be deleted. The FAA reports don't help establish notability, it would have to be independent sources, like newspapers, books, journals, and so forth. Another resource that may help is WP:AIRCRASH which is an essay that helps gives some direction to article creators about whether or not an incident is likely to be considered notable. Hope that helps. RecycledPixels (talk) 17:53, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you tons for the insight! I'll take look at WP:AIRCRASH. People like you make newbies like me a much more helpful aspect, so I really appreciate your help.
The article for Eastern 494 looks like it was approved for public viewing. Although, I still 100% agree that it needs more valuable sources to add value to the article to really showcase it as a notable event. It might take additional time to find these additional sources, but I plan on taking on the task.
Again, thank you for your help with this! Bmurphy380 (talk) 07:38, 23 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
Circling back on the Eastern Airlines Flight 494 article. For now, I've merged the content with Eastern Air Lines#Non-fatal_accidents_and_incidents so the incident can remain accessible to readers and I have redirected the article. If you eventually find information that establishes notability, the article history has not been deleted, so feel free to restore and expand the original article. RecycledPixels (talk) 17:59, 19 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for taking the time with this! Very much appreciated! Bmurphy380 (talk) 04:04, 25 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
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The picture file:DC8 Crash.png that you uploaded to Wikipedia Commons and said that it was your own work is clearly not your own work. It is an image published by the NTSB and therefore is in the public domain, but the picture File:Superior-1984.jpg that you also claimed was your own work was taken from the ALPA magazine website at [1] and is a copyright violation. You have been previously cautioned about your misattribution of images and this is an issue that is taken very seriously at Wikipedia. RecycledPixels (talk) 18:29, 10 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

You've uploaded a few other images to Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons, all of those you said were your own images. Are there any of those that weren't actually yours, and if so, can you update the source information on those images? If you don't know how to do that, ask for help. RecycledPixels (talk) 02:25, 11 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Northwest Airlines flight 969 (July 10)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by VersaceSpace were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
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Concern regarding Draft:Northwest Airlines flight 969

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  Hello, Bmurphy380. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Northwest Airlines flight 969, 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) 21:07, 10 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Northwest Airlines flight 969

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Hello, Bmurphy380. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Northwest Airlines flight 969".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:46, 10 January 2023 (UTC)Reply