User talk:Carlosrapido
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Charles D. Swift, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Charles Swift. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.
This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot 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) 01:10, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
February 2010
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Charles Swift, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Overwriting an existing page like that is vandalism Omarcheeseboro (talk) 01:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Follow-up on the Charles Swift situation
[edit]Noting your comment on Coren's talk page, what you tried to do, copying an existing article into a new page, constitutes a copyright violation: by doing so, you separated the article's text from its contributor history, something that is not permitted by our content licenses.
Pages can only be transferred to a new title using the move command, or, if your account is yet too new to enable it (or the move seems controversial or complicated), you can request that it be performed, after review, on this page.
That being said, as the lawyer is referred to in the sources both as Charles Swift and Charles D. Swift, such a move would require a consensus, to be sought at Talk:Charles Swift before. A more viable, faster and uncontroversial alternative would be to create the article about the actor under the title "Charles Swift (actor)".
Before you do that, though, two things. First, in order to warrant an article, its subject has to meet a certain number of criteria, most importantly that his career has been previously noted and commented upon by independent third party coverage, in a non-trivial fashion (so a mere website listing movie appearances doesn't qualify). It must further be written in a neutral tone suitable for an encyclopedic article, and the various claims made in the article be verifiable through the aforementioned third party coverage. This is explained at more length in this page on how to write your first article.
Last but not least, going by your nickname, in case you are really Charles Swift himself, please also take some time to read WP:Autobiography, which will explain what our stance is on writing autobiographies, and how, if you were to decide to continue despite the caution against doing so, an article about yourself would be subject to scrutiny and editing you might well rather avoid.
If you need any help, you can create a new section on your talk page and add {{helpme}} followed by your request below it, someone will be along shortly to assist you. Alternatively, you may also leave me a message on my talk page. Best regards, MLauba (talk) 23:52, 17 February 2010 (UTC)