Talk:Rosemary Gladstar

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I am trying to create this page on Rosemary Gladstar and am new to Wikipedia. Now the page is frozen for copyright infringement, but I wasn't finished yet. Just letting the administrator know I am trying to improve it. Thanks.

You can find the administrator and contact him or her directly. It is important to change the wording when you quote information or the bots will pick it up as plagiarism. You can quote a few paragraphs, but put them within the blockquotes in the symbol part of the page. Go to the article tab at the top of this page, then click edit this page. It won't bring you back here but to the Rosemary Gladstar/Temp editing page. Write the page, with the changes, then contact the administrator and say you wish to replace the original page. You can contact me at ksvaughan2@aol.com if you have questions- I had the same problem on my first piece. KSVaughan2 17:51, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I rewrote what you had with slightly different language so the copywrite bots wouldn't pick it up. Feel free to make any changes or additions. Gladstar has been around somewhat longer than 30 years because she hired Chris Hobbs for her school in 1980, so I changed that to 35. When you are just starting something, make sure you cover yourself doing the following:

Write { {stub} } or { {herbalist-stub} } at the bottom (I added an extra space between the parentheses so it would print), but go down to the edit symbol box and just click on it.
Add references using the < ref> </ref > symbol in the edit symbol box and make sure you use at least three websites or they will boot you for notability. (They deleted my Michael Tierra article for that, but I figured out who did it and got it back.) The references should be added in the text and at the bottom do a references heading and the < /references> symbol from the edit symbol box. Just listing your references below isn't enough to stop the notability or commercial uses flagz from popping up.
If you quote, use the < blockquote> quoted matter</ blockquote> lexicon and add the < ref> soursc</ref> right after. You didn't quote very much, but without the quotation references, the bots compare it to websites and flag it. This should prevent them from deleting your information.

(All my lexicon markings have extra spaces so they will show up in the text.) KSVaughan2 18:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first paragraph is wonderful, in particular you've done a really good job referencing it. I am still concerned about copyright with the second paragraph. While it isn't identical, I think if I were an author looking to protect my copyright I'd find it a little too close for comfort. The tone also seems a little off. I would suggest that User:Ksvaughan2 create a clean version of the article at Rosemary Gladstar/Temp2 without the second paragraph (it should be OK to use the other text you already have since you wrote it). Any important information from that paragraph can be added later. Once this has been done, I think it should be uncontroversial for an administrator to delete the current two versions and move the second temp version into place, and I will act to get this done. — The Storm Surfer 01:20, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I made changes to the first temp page- seemed unnecessary to have two. KSVaughan2 23:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]