User talk:DBrnstn

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Speedy deletion of Tom Engelhardt

A tag has been placed on Tom Engelhardt 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 article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's 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. jonny-m t 08:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Tom Engelhardt

Hi DBrnstn,

My apologies for the tagging of your article, but Wikipedia policy is fairly strict on copyright infringement, and it's best to get it off the site as soon as possible. That being said, I have no problems with there being an article on the subject--he certainly seems notable enough to me--and so I encourage you to recreate the article stating the information you've gathered on the subject in your own words.

Please let me know if you have any questions! --jonny-m t 08:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your comment on my talk page

I've responded to your comment on my talk page (I try to keep the conversations linked so they're easier to read through later).

On a separate note, when commenting on an editor's talk page I might suggest first taking a quick look through their contributions to get a rough idea of their general knowledge level and areas of involvement. There's actually a useful tool here that's makes this a little easier; it can also be found in the user tabs script, one of the Wikipedia user scripts. In my case, checking this tool would have told you that in my case "really active" means about a thousand edits a month, during which I hopefully would have moved beyond making beginner mistakes. Of course, this isn't always a guarantee, and users with 10,000 edits can make the same mistakes just as well as users with 10 edits, so I appreciate the concern regardless :) Thanks! --jonny-m t 14:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: Tom Engelhardt - please copy to my talk page

I sent you an email. It should be in the inbox of whichever email you use with Wikipedia, if you don't remember which it is you can check by visiting your preferences. I don't want to repost the text on-wiki because it is a copyvio so I included it in the email. Alternatively, the email may have been blocked by a spam filter. If so, please check for mrchief268@gmail.com (I'm not worried about spam so there's no need to remove it from the page). Sorry about not replying; I assumed that you'd received the email. :) James086^{Talk | Email} 10:21, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Got it! :-) Sent Weds Dec 19th. Thanks much!!!! No prob re: delay, I've been swamped. All's well that pastes well. Thanks again, Cheers, D. DBrnstn (talk) 10:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Philip_Zack article

Hello, I noticed you're the main contributor to the Dr Philip Zack article so I thought I'd let you know that I changed your citations into proper "<ref>" style references. [...] Keep up the good edits. 67.71.95.177 (talk) 20:23, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Funding, Budget Process? How are NG expenditures decided?

The National Guard Defense Budget is approved via bill by Congress. Individual states do provide resources and funding to the NG in their states but the NG gets over 90% of their budget and expenditures from the federal government. Of course like all our tax dollars the government dictates where funding goes, and the NG and the states, like all other federal agencies, fight and lobby for a bigger share of the pie for themselves.

And lastly, states work with their NG Adjunct Generals to train NG personnel to fit the needs of the individual states but basic combat training is still provided by the Army and Air Force. Neovu79 (talk) 22:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello DBrnstn! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 34 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Morris J. Amitay - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Thomas Dine - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:50, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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