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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Torchwood Who? (talk) 06:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Reply


Speedy deletion of Sarah Ehrlich

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A tag has been placed on Sarah Ehrlich 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 blatant 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article 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 article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. NeilN talkcontribs 05:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Help for Orphans

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This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Help for Orphans, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.helpfororphans.org. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 06:26, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion of Help for Orphans

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A tag has been placed on Help for Orphans 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 blatant 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article 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 article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Torchwood Who? (talk) 06:41, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Notes

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There's a message at User talk:Mmtik which includes you too. OK. Copyright - you've probably read WP:COPYVIO by now - if not, please do so. Our rules on copyright apply even if you wrote it, created the website and are the only one with a password anyway. If it's published, it's copyright and we can't use it (unless it was written in the days of Dickens or Shakespeare...). Next point - please sign talk page posts with four ~ things. This puts up your signature and a datestamp. Keeps things tidy, and means the archiving bots that some of us use don't get puzzled when selecting things to tidy away. Another thing - don't write about yourself. Not forbidden, but strongly not recommended. Read WP:BIO first. Lots of worthy folks are doing grand jobs, but they don't get articles. Quite a few rather horrible little toe-rags do have articles. They've got the coverage, and people want to know who they are. I remember one who had an article written which was so clearly vanity that we were discussing deleting it. The subject contested vigorously. Then someone reliably sourced some skeletons in the cupboard, and we all changed position rapidly, including the subject.... Always remember that anyone (unless blocked or banned) can edit articles on Wikipedia. and remember that while coverage is essential in terms of referencing, merely having references doesn't make something notable. ~~~~ is what I just typed, but when I take the damper off and do it again, it reads Peridon (talk) 17:44, 23 September 2012 (UTC)Reply