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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:19, 1 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Eckstein-Norton University

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Hello Omarabdullah24,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Eckstein-Norton University for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Meatsgains (talk) 19:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Help me!

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Can you check to see my Wiki page has any plagiarism involved?

Omar Omarabdullah24 (talk) 21:50, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

You're asking others to check whether you plagiarized? Shouldn't you know that yourself? Since the likely sources are unidentifiable and hidden behind a University of New Orleans login, no one without an UNO account will be able to even determine what you might have plagiarized there. See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes that provide some metadata such as the name of the author, the title of the work, the publication date and so on - then even people who cannot log in to UNO's library will at least have a chance of checking the references. Huon (talk) 21:58, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Omarabdullah24 (talk) 06:00, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Okay I've got everything ready. I have my own page but someone siad I couldn't use that one and told me to go to the main page to improve on it.Reply

Help me!

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Where exactly do I turn in my assignment?

Omar

Omarabdullah24 (talk) 05:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

December 2016

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I removed the content at the page you just created, Nannie H Burroughs, and replaced it with a redirect to Nannie H. Burroughs, since the latter page already contains a biography of this person. However, if you look at the page history of the page you created, located at [1], then you can recover the content you created, and integrate any of the content you added that was not already at Nannie H. Burroughs into the latter article. I did this because Wikipedia only has one article for each topic, since we want to all collaborate to make one great article about each topic rather than having several competing articles. Let me know if anything is unclear; welcome to Wikipedia! CapitalSasha ~ talk 05:07, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Omarabdullah24 (talk) 05:13, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Excuse me but that's an assignment I need for my professor tomorrow. THis is what I picked.Reply

Unfortunately Wikipedia can't have two articles about the same subject. I would imagine that what you are supposed to do for your assignment is to improve the existing article. CapitalSasha ~ talk 05:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Omarabdullah24 (talk) 05:22, 8 December 2016 (UTC) What do you mean I can delete stuff from the main article and insert my typing in there.Reply

You can edit the existing article to add more content and make it better, yes. You can add more information to that article, for example. You shouldn't delete information at the existing article unless you have a good reason, though: such edits are likely to be reverted.

CapitalSasha ~ talk 05:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Omarabdullah24 (talk) 05:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

THis is coming from the old user "Nannie Helen Burroughs papers, 1900-1963 (Library of Congress), Biographical Note (Woman's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America)". 2001 (last updated 2010 April). Retrieved 2010-10-27.

Check date values in: |date= (help) this appears in red what should I do with it.

I removed the updated note which fixed the problem. CapitalSasha ~ talk 06:05, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply


Omarabdullah24 (talk) 06:03, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Can you review the page I've edited?Reply

I'm concerned about the amount of content that you've removed. Why did those paragraphs need to be deleted? CapitalSasha ~ talk 06:07, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Omarabdullah24 (talk) 06:10, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Okay I'll be honest I was editing before I asked and didn't know. Is there a way you can put some of it back without deleting mine.Reply

Omarabdullah24 (talk) 06:45, 8 December 2016 (UTC) Can anything be done?Reply

You can look at the page history and reincorporate the text you deleted into the article. CapitalSasha ~ talk 15:59, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

August 2019

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  Your addition to White people has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:46, 12 August 2019 (UTC)Reply