User talk:Alexandriabrown

Welcome and introduction

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Hi, Alexandriabrown. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! My76Strat (talk) 00:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Alexandriabrown/test.

Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009.

When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

--My76Strat (talk) 00:39, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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AFC

Hello, your article for creation is currently being reviewed. The initial results are promising that the article will be approved. There are minor issues which some will be corrected and others hopefully you can also correct. When the article is set for a final disposition you will be notified on your talk page. I woul encourage you to consider setting up an account under your username so you can become more involved with Wikipedia. I think you might enjoy being here and I know we are happy to have your contributions. My76Strat (talk) 23:42, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re. Hi

Hi there :-) And again, welcome to Wikipedia.

I found the article that you are referring to: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ali Brown.

Before I come to your actual questions, there are some more important issues to address;

Given your user-name, I assume that you are the subject of the article? In which case, before anything else, please read WP:AUTO. When you have such a conflict of interest, it is quite difficult to write an autobiographic article, and we advise people not to do so; it is so very difficult to be neutral, and to only use facts supported by appropriate reliable sources.

At the moment, we cannot make the article live, mostly because it does not show references for most of the information. All of the facts in the article should come from independent, reliable sources - that is, things like magazine and newspapers, but not press-releases. We try to avoid primary sources wherever possible.

These references should be formatted "in line". I will add some help on that, below.

In answer to your question, the article should probably be called "Ali Brown", if that is the name you most commonly use. For example, we have Bill Clinton, not "William Jefferson Clinton". We can then have redirects, which means that e.g. William Jefferson Clinton works too.

We also have an article called Ali Brown, as it happens - but notice the italics at the top;

...and thus, we have articles on Alistair Brown (footballer born 1951) and Alistair Brown (footballer born 1985). Your article, if accepted, would become something like "Ali Brown (businessman)" or whatever is appropriate.

I have put the submission 'on-hold', for now, while we try to sort things out. Feel free to make edits to the article while it is on hold. I will also assist you in getting the article in a better position to withstand publication.

If you need more help with any of it, please ask - but the most important thing is, to have neutral, well-referenced facts from independent, reliable sources.

Best, My76Strat (talk) 00:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please consider adding references to the areas which request a citation. This will help the article progress towards publication. Thanks. My76Strat (talk) 22:24, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These requests are somewhat time sensitive. To clear any backlogs it is not desirable to maintain an AFC on hold for an extended period of time. 24 hours of no activity is presumed as a negative response and could reject the article for some future recreation. I have stayed active on this article thereby extending the process. The article is close to publication and providing the references requested will almost certainly satisfy the criteria to this end. Thank you for your attention to these matters. My76Strat (talk) 16:02, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Your nomination at Articles for Creation was declined, and Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ali Brown was not created. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer, and please feel free to request article creation again once the issues have been addressed. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! mono 03:23, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ali Brown concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ali Brown, a page you created has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace. If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements. If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13. Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 23:43, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your article submission Ali Brown

Hello Alexandriabrown. It has been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Ali Brown.

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note, however, that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ali Brown}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, click "Save", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 12:23, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Alexandriabrown, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Ali Brown (businesswoman) 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 03:01, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS pending tags

Hi Alexandriabrown, please don't place the {{OTRS pending}} tag on your user talk page. If the OTRS ticket concerns a file, please place the tag on the IMAGE DESCRIPTION PAGE (file: whatever). If it concerns contributions to an article, please place the tag on the TALK PAGE FOR THAT ARTICLE (talk: whatever). Thanks, --B (talk) 13:51, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019

Your addition to Ali Brown (businesswoman) has been removed, 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:28, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]