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Paula Jean Welden

I have not deleted your contributions yet, but please add a source, or your additions will be deleted. Thanks. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 12:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for including the references. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 12:28, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

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Omarcheeseboro (talk) 13:08, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Deleting content violating copyright

Back in 2012 you added a substantial amount of text to Republican-American . It appears that this was taken directly from https://www.rep-am.com/about-us/history/ . I've removed the copied material and changed the visibility of versions of the article since your initial addition - that is, I've hidden 10 years worth of revised versions. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:25, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

I was the News Librarian, historical writer, and columnist at the Republican-American newspaper. The Executive Editor asked me to write the company history section for the Rep-Am.com website and we used the same material for the Wikipedia article, which had very little of our history at that time. A reference or footnote to the Rep-Am website's history section may be necessary in the Wikipedia article. To delete all this material does a disservice to Wikipedia. The information itself is accurate, though I may not have referenced it properly. Mcarroll72 (talk) 12:42, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

OK, I thought that might be the case. However, that's a clear conflict of interest related to authorship. I'll note something on the talk page and can go forward with a synthesis from rather than a copy of that material that you wrote for the paper's website. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 14:34, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Mcarroll72 (talk) 19:01, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

I've added a concise history summary to the article. I wanted to cite the fire that destroyed Waterbury's downtown as a major influence on the Waterbury Republican but this event was not considered notable enough to be included in the Waterbury, Connecticut article, otherwise I would have added it. Though concise, I think the section conveys the broad brush strokes of the history. As always, a reader can go to the cited material to see more information. (P.S. the History page on the website does not have a by-line nor does it have a last-edited date. I suggest considering at least adding a last-edited date.) Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)