User talk:Lawrence Creeger

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July 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution has been reverted.
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Proposed deletion of The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Appears to be a hoax, no cited sources.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Mad Pierrot (talk) 03:56, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution

A tag has been placed on The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution 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.

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File permission problem with File:Constitutional Monument w-Reagan 001.jpg

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:Constitutional Monument w-Reagan 001.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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HelpMe This Monument represents the ONLY Monument dedicated to the United States Constitution by the United States Government. It is a symbol of America's protected freedoms and certainly deserves a place in Wikipedia. While the author of this article is also President of The American Constitution Spirit Corporation who owns the WEB site www.Spiritoffreedomtour.org, a 501c2 foundation, every effort is being made to just give the facts concerning this American Heritage art and symbol. --Lawrence Creeger (talk) 05:01, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your cooperation

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Thank you for being so cooperative and civil. It makes it much more pleasant to be a Wikipedian. Mad Pierrot (talk) 06:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Larry,

I've removed the speedy deletion tags and edited the talk page on The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution. Sorry about all the trouble, I may have been overzealous when nominating the article for deletion. Good luck and I hope I didn't scare you away from contributing further to Wikipedia. [mad pierrot][t c] 07:38, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all, you just made me work harder at understanding Wikipedia. I hope to be able to contribute significantly in the future. --Lawrence Creeger (talk) 03:59, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So do you think you're going to submit The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution to articles for creation? I still think you should. [mad pierrot][t c] 19:40, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fully planning to submit it once I finish the article. There is a lot more to go and I'm going to need more time once I get back from my trip. Thanks for the encouragement.--98.244.72.159 (talk) 21:39, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should consider taking down the page as it is right now, and creating a subpage within your user page, like at User:Lawrence Creeger/National Monument, and continuing to work on the article there. A third opinion was provided on the talk page here in case you didn't see it. In order to request for the article to be deleted, you would type (or copy and paste) this text:

{{db-author}}

onto the top of the page. First you would obviously want to copy the text you already have, so it is not deleted. Let me know if you have any more questions. [mad pierrot][t c] 22:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution

I have nominated The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. [mad pierrot][t c] 06:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagged

I undeleted and tagged the image. MBisanz ^talk 06:24, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]