User talk:Jiddins

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Cheers, ChzzBot IV (talk) 11:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

I noticed your submission in Articles for creation, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spring Creek Lodge Academy. Thanks! It will be reviewed by a volunteer soon.

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Best, ChzzBot IV (talk) 11:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for submitting an article to Wikipedia. Your draft submission has been reviewed. However, the reviewer felt that a few things need to be fixed before it is accepted. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spring Creek Lodge Academy. If there is no response within seven days, the request may be declined. If this happens, please feel free to continue to work on the article. You can resubmit it (by adding the text {{subst:submitdraft}} to the top of the article) when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 1:15pm • 03:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for submitting an article to Wikipedia. Your draft submission has been reviewed. However, the reviewer felt that a few things need to be fixed before it is accepted. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spring Creek Lodge Academy. If there is no response within seven days, the request may be declined. If this happens, please feel free to continue to work on the article. You can resubmit it (by adding the text {{subst:submitdraft}} to the top of the article) when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 10:49am • 00:49, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for creation/Spring Creek Lodge Academy

Hi. You made an Article for creation page, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spring Creek Lodge Academy (2011-11-27), but it was never actually submitted for a review.

I have submitted it just now, so you should get feedback soon. Cheers! Chzz ► 23:54, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. However, the reviewer felt that a few things need to be fixed before it is accepted. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome 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:submit}} to the top of the article.)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Pol430 talk to me 22:17, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Westchester Township

Greetings! You recently added some material to the article for Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana. I initially reverted it because it seemed to be copied directly from a web page (http://wpl.lib.in.us/museum/A-Brief-History-of-Westchester-Township.html). I see that you have added it again with citations and a "used with permission" claim; however, this doesn't really change anything. The article still consists largely of material copied directly and word-for-word from a website, written by someone else, yet it's not presented that way. Please see Wikipedia:Quotations. Article should be written by Wikipedia editors, using cited sources to support the text, not comprise the text. Any thoughts? Omnedon (talk) 16:33, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The material under the history section was taken from a document that is provided free to the public. It is copyright-free and was intended to be used on wikipedia and other sites local sites that provide free information to residents. I am editing this article on behalf of the museum to make the summary historical knowledge available to a wider audience.

First and foremost, thank you for your efforts. Expanding articles like this is a worthy effort. However, aside from any other issues, you would need to show that the material you are adding is copyright-free, rather than simply claim it, especially since the source web page clearly states "© Copyright 2009 Westchester Public Library" at the bottom. We are not supposed to copy the contents of entire web pages into articles; this is about more than just the copyright issue (which still stands, in my opinion). Omnedon (talk) 18:47, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

With this edit, you state that the material you have added is in the public domain; yet the source webpage states a copyright at the bottom. How do you reconcile that? If I can be of any assistance with any of this, please let me know; I am not here to prevent you from improving this article -- quite the reverse, and I applaud your efforts -- but there is a significant Wikipedia policy involved with this particular material. Omnedon (talk) 15:49, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not to belabor the point here, but one suggestion: summarize the township's history in your own words, citing reliable sources. The link directly to the summary at the Westchester Public Library website could be provide in the "External links" section, so that it would be easily available to anyone looking at the article -- but it wouldn't be copied word-for-word in the article itself. That would be the preferable way to build the history section, for various reasons. Any thoughts? Omnedon (talk) 19:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cut - n - paste

Please don't remove content from an article and then paste that content into a new article without giving credit, that is "saying where it came from", as you recently did on Valparaiso Moraine / Mississinawa Moraine. Your edit summary from the new article, "pasted material from other article to form new article" was not adequate, please give credit by at least stating what "other article". Without proper attribution your "new article" is essentially a copyright violation. Please rectify that with an explanation on the talk pages of the articles concerned. Vsmith (talk) 17:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See: Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Vsmith (talk) 17:53, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see you have now made cut n paste copies of two other articles: Fort Wayne Moraine and Union Moraine. Please address the copyright concerns for these also. Vsmith (talk) 18:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All articles should be licensed under the creative commons license. I have placed an editor's note on the two articles anyway.Jiddins (talk) 18:39, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes they are under that license, however according to the policy page linked above, we need to give credit for content copied within WP. The proper place for your "editor's note"s is on the article talk pages. Please move them there and provide time details along with your sig. Thanks, Vsmith (talk) 18:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I will do this. Thanks for the pointer.Jiddins (talk) 19:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, I've added categories to the new moraine stubs. Now they just need expanding. Cheers, Vsmith (talk) 21:00, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Calumet Region, IN concern

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Calumet Region, IN

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 18:10, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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