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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:DavidWestcott.jpg

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Old Cranleighan Society

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Please delete this page in its entirity. All I was trying to do was add value to Wikipedia but its not worth wasting your or my time any further. Mogodonman (talk) 21:26, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Old Cranleighan Society

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I am happy for you to delete this page in its entirity. All I was trying to do was add value to Wikipedia but its not worth wasting your or my time any further. Mogodonman (talk) 21:25, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Old Cranleighans

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A tag has been placed on Old Cranleighans requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Old Cranleighan Cricket Club

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A tag has been placed on Old Cranleighan Cricket Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Zachlipton (talk) 16:51, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Please delete this page in its entirity. All I was trying to do was add value to Wikipedia but its not worth wasting your or my time any further. Mogodonman (talk) 21:25, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Crest Big.jpg

File Copyright problem

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Copyright problem: Old Cranleighans

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Old Cranleighans, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.oldcranleighan.org.uk/history.html, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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Appreciate your time addressing this matter but please delete this page in its entirity. All I was trying to do was add value to Wikipedia but its not worth wasting your or my time any further. Many thanks. Mogodonman (talk) 21:24, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

I understand. And I'm sorry about the frustrating experience. I have removed the copyrighted text from the article. — CactusWriter ^(talk)

Nomination of Old Cranleighans for deletion

The article Old Cranleighans is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Cranleighans until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:47, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Please delete this page in its entirity. All I was trying to do was add value to Wikipedia but its not worth wasting your or my time any further. Mogodonman (talk) 21:23, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Donating content

Hi, I noticed you claimed to own the copyrighted content mentioned above. However, Wikipedia has no method of verifying this on-wiki. You can, however, e-mail OTRS releasing your copyrighted content under the GFDL and CC-by-SA 3.0 licenses. You can read on how to do that here. Let me know on my talk page if you need more help. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:13, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Old Cranleighan Cricket Club

My frustration is professional. I am managing editor of ESPN and repeatedly our material on sport is reproduced verbatim on Wikipedia and yet no attempt is made by you to do anything about flagrant copyright breaches. To paraphrase your own comment, if you, as in Wikipedia, is not prepared to take time to protect copyright when there are genuine breaches and yet take a moral high ground when there are not, do you deserve to have the rights you do?

I am also interested why your default position is to immediately delete content without any reference to the author - and I did follow the recommended procedure when the issue was flagged - and yet others take a more considered approach to the situation?

Back to basics. Please advise what I have to do to revive this page. If the my material which appears elsewhere on my own websites is removed, then can the deleted pages be restored and, if so, how is that done? — Mogodonman (talk · contribs) [unsigned when originally posted in an inappropriate place - you were lucky I even saw it!]

Firstly, the real reason I deleted Old Cranleighan Cricket Club was because amateur sports clubs are generally deemed not notable enough for Wikipedia. I tried to get confirmation but got an unhelpful answer. I note that the nearest specimen to me Old Whitgiftian Rugby Club or (real mouthful of a name!) Old Mid-Whitgiftian RFC (est. 1926) do not have articles. I challenge you to point me to five old boys clubs that have articles here. I suggest you re-submit your text via AfC (a bit gentler than simply reposting it) but do not expect much joy.

Copyvios. I am sorry if ESPN copyright is constantly being violated. As you know, Wikipedia input is patrolled ferociously but some copyvios still slip through. As well as many humans, we do have a bot to look for copyvios - see its recent results. Depending on how strongly you feel, you could contact the bot's owner asking for it to be beefed up or make a request to the Wikimedia Foundation that more should be done.

Stylevio. I am very surprised to learn that you are a journalist. As such you must be fully aware of "house style". The piece you submitted about OCCC was written in a tone, not too far wrong, but definitely unencyclopedic, it was about ten times too long in relation to the subject and you had not made the slightest attempt to provide any external links. All violations of Wikipedia house style. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 12:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I was unaware amateur clubs were not deemed worthy of Wikipedia, but if that's the rules then I am happy to abide by them.

Re the violations - they are so numerous it is actually pointless to chase them all down, but given you use bots I am surprised more are not picked up. I suspect not everyone is as diligent as you - that's actually meant as a compliment.

There is a difference between house styles. Your style, for example, would not be remotely suitable for publications I manage but variety is the spice of life. Your thinly-veiled insult about my professionalism was uncalled for but guess years of living in Croydon can make even the most reasonable person rather bitter! Mogodonman (talk) 19:12, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

January 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not replace pages with blank content, as you did with this edit to Old Cranleighans, as this is confusing to readers. The page's content has been restored for now. If there is a problem with the page, it should be edited or reverted to a previous version if possible; if you think the page should be removed entirely, see further information. Thank you.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   22:14, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

The article is gone, some content saved, revised to avoid copyright violation and inserted into text of Cranleigh School.I am sure it misses some fine points but then I don't live in England and I am probably unappreciative of the finer niceties there. Anything more I can do ?  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   22:47, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

February 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Walter Buchanan (footballer), without citing a reliable source using an inline citation that clearly supports the material. The burden is on the person wishing to keep in the material to meet these requirements, as a necessary (but not always sufficient) condition. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. GiantSnowman 20:33, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Please can you explain why I have been able to add educational establishments for Cranleigh School without any problems until now? I happy to quote the source as the register but just wondered why the inconsistency? I am the archivist at the School so do have access to the records and will include from hereon in.

Proposed deletion of Sportal

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