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Your submission at Articles for creation: Cultural and Natural History Collections at the University of La Verne, La Verne, California (May 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Eddie891 was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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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Eddie891 (talk) 00:53, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Chickboat, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! Eddie891 (talk) 00:53, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adding references can be easy

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
Then click on "Templates".
Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header ==References== is near the end of the article.
And check that {{Reflist}} is directly underneath that header.

7. Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 19:14, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

Copyright

Hello Chickboat, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft talk:Cultural and Natural History Collections at the University of La Verne, La Verne, California have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of 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 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 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.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk 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 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. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:57, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Final warning

Hi Chickboat. I have reverted your copying and pasting of additional copyrighted content into the draft, posted after I left you the message above. Unlike other types of community norm issues, copyright infringement is illegal activity, and little leeway is given for continuing to engage in it. If you do this again, I will block your account from further editing. In order for copyrighted content to be used here, its owner would have to irrevocably release it into the public domain or under a suitably free copyright license, and such release would have to be given in a verifiable manner. You can read about methods to do so at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:03, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I just want all of this deleted. Gone. Erased. I do NOT want my account blocked because I can't not understand the coding. A little help would have been nice. Linking someone to the same pages that confuses them does not. Since I am clearly no HTML coder, I plan to delete everything and hit "save changes." I have absolutely no clue how to do this any other way. FYI I wrote every word myself. The only thing I can think that is a copyright issue is the initial paragraph about the University of La Verne, which yes, I copied to keep structure (but was deleted in the first edit -- understandably). But every single word written, that was not in quotes, were my own words. Illegal activity? Hardly!

You've been told previously at Teahouse that Wikipedia is NOT coded in HTML. The problems you are having have nothing whatsoever to do with coding, but with you not assimilating policy to which you have been directed to and have made no inquiries for clarification. Please understand this isn't going to work the way you want it to; instead like virtually any social constrait, it works the way it works. It is up to you to assimilate. The Teahouse is a great source for help, but asking questions will not do you any good if you do not read and ask for clarification on what you do not understand. This isn't like a high school class. You're out there on the internet. No one can see your face showing indication that your not getting it. As far as your article, in my blunt but informed opinion on what makes for notability, should be deleted and covered in much less detail in the university's article. John from Idegon (talk) 21:06, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John from Idegon, my comment was not directed toward you. Your editing suggestions were helpful and I deleted much (it was also noted in my previous comment when I recognized my error in copy/paste information about the University of La Verne, noting its deletion was understandable. After your response, I added new material that was immediately deleted by another editor. I assumed this had to do with your comment that the article had to be notable, so I let it all go and focused solely on a saber-tooth cat, one of two in the world. Using the templates provided, I Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). all of my citations, but yet another editor, the one previous to your comment, gave me a final warning (before I even had time to read the previous warning) that I was infringing on copyright laws. Understand my frustration as I wrote the original piece and thought I was doing exactly as instructed. I do not understand how Teahouse works, nor how Talk works, so I am responding here. As frustrated as I am, I do want you to know that your comments were very helpful and I thought I had deleted what you instructed "nestled in foothills" and made the article more relevant "notable." Actually, I think the nestled was deleted for me, for when I looked at the preview it was gone. Clearly I am in over my head.