ColtonBaumgartner

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 01:16, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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Wikipedia is not a place where people create articles about themselves. All we do is summarize professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:16, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and one more thing: don't go copying and pasting text from other sites, or from books or magazines. Paraphrase and cite your sources, don't plagiarize. Your only edits so far have not only been reverted but deleted because they were taken from IMDB. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:23, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Colton Baumgartner (August 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:  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 when they have been resolved.

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Theroadislong (talk) 16:02, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello! ColtonBaumgartner, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Theroadislong (talk) 16:02, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

August 2017

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at Draft:Colton Baumgartner. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 16:08, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Stop plagiarizing

Your addition to Draft:Colton Baumgartner has been removed, 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:03, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Like, really, if I see you copy and paste text from another source again, I will block this account. Also, if I see you continue to try to promote your career, I will block you for that as well. You are perfectly welcome to edit pretty much any other part of the site, as long as you summarize and paraphrase sources. You are not welcome to steal text from sources and you are not welcome to use Wikipedia to promote your career. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:13, 25 August 2017 (UTC)