User talk:Alison.ray

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Cheers, ChzzBot IV (talk) 05:49, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

I noticed your submission in Articles for creation, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Thomas Joseph Sugrue. Thanks! It will be reviewed by a volunteer soon.

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== References ==

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Best, ChzzBot IV (talk) 05:49, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and because some issues were found, it could not be accepted in its current form; it is now located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Thomas Joseph Sugrue. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:22, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thomas Joseph Sugrue, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 23:11, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

March 2014

Hello Alison.ray, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Edgar Cayce has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or 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 a cited source. 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 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 designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
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Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in 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. Dougweller (talk) 20:15, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Even if you wrote this, we would need permission to use it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials and in any case the AMA statement would need a direct citation to the source. Also, you obviously have a WP:COI which might be a problem. Dougweller (talk) 22:12, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]