User talk:John.dalgleish

Welcome

Hello, John.dalgleish! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Dougweller (talk) 15:43, 14 April 2012 (UTC) Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Copyright problem

Hi John - even if you write something elsewhere, you can't copy it here without clearing up the copyright problem. I don't know who owns the copyright for your about.com material, but see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. There are a couple of other potential problems with your edits I'm afraid. They boil down to the question of whether they can be sourced from sources that discuss Staple Hill and do these sources meet our criteria. See WP:Verify and WP:RS, and please also read WP:NOR. Finally there is 'tone'. When you edit here, imagine you are writing for the Britannica. Avoid hyperbole, the use of 'we', and for places try to avoid the article becoming a tourist guide. I've removed the copyright material that was obvious, and replaced the bit about the origin of the word. I'm not at all sure that the 'Stapulhul' (if I recall the spelling right) found elsewhere might not have been found here - there's an example, you can't say that it is the original spelling without areliable source, and you can't speculate about why it isn't in the Domesday Book without a source because that is original research. Most good editors start off making mistakes - I had problems with 'original research' for a while, for instance. Dougweller (talk) 15:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback

Hello. You can see your contributions by going to Special:Contributions/John.dalgleish.

 Hazard-SJ  ㋡  02:03, 15 April 2012 (UTC)