Robinskk

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William Chip Merlin

Please learn how to write a biography.Xx236 (talk) 11:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

William Chip Merlin moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, William Chip Merlin, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dom from Paris (talk) 12:06, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Merlin (yacht) (October 3)

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

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Merlin (yacht) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 17:18, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Robinskk! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 17:18, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Merlin (yacht) (October 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

• Draft:Merlin (yacht) may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Sam Sailor 09:57, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 29)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Whispering 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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Whispering 12:51, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bkissin 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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Robinskk/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to User:Robinskk/sandbox, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Bkissin (talk) 19:58, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Merlin (yacht) (November 27)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

• Draft:Merlin (yacht) may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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KylieTastic (talk) 20:58, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Course instructor?

Hi! I see on your user-page that you are a course instructor. I also see that you have not one single edit to mainspace here. Can I ask how you think you can teach your students to contribute to Wikipedia when you have no experience at all of it yourself? I don't see any indication that you have even followed the steps outlined here (but please correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway, I've deleted Draft:Merlin (yacht) because of the numerous and extensive copyright violations. Please study our copyright policy and then explain it to your students – even if they learn nothing else, they should learn that. If someone wants to create a draft article they should probably start with five or six solid independent reliable sources and one or two short sentences of text; if the topic is notable (as the yacht obviously is), that stub has a real chance of being moved to mainspace. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:03, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

This just gets worse and worse: looking at the page histories, I find that it was you and not your students who added the same copyvio content to Draft:Merlin (yacht), to User:Robinskk/sandbox and (three times!) to Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Eckerd School/Narrative of Sail (Autumn Term). What did you think you were doing? Wikipedia has a sort of zero-tolerance policy towards copyvio, so please understand this: if you again copy non-free content from external sources into Wikipedia, you can expect to be indefinitely suspended from editing without any further warning. I'll put a boiler-plate explanation of our policy below this. Ping Helaine (Wiki Ed), who can perhaps offer advice on how to move forward from here (sorry, Helaine, it looks as if you already have your hands full!). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:21, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers We're working with the instructor. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:35, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Robinskk, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Merlin (yacht) have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:22, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:William Chip Merlin

Hello, Robinskk. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "William Chip Merlin".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. 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. JMHamo (talk) 08:11, 4 April 2019 (UTC)