User talk:Aa42shirley

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Speedy deletion nomination of John Maine (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on John Maine (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
• disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

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May 2014

Hello Aa42shirley, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to John Maine (sculptor) has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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Copyright problem: Sir Horatio Bryan Donkin

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! PamD 09:27, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problems: James Silk Buckingham and John Maine (sculptor)

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Operation Trojan Horse

I reverted your recent edit to the article because you did not give a reason for the changes. Significant changes to controversial articles such as this should be done with extreme care. You should discuss any potential changes you wish to make on the talk page, and gain consensus from other members of the community. This is Paul (talk) 19:02, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ikin

Hello Aa42shirley,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Ikin for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ow@!s (talk) 11:38, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

BookButler

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Ikin and A. E. Ikin

Hallo, I've come across Alfred Edward Ikin while stub-sorting, adn then the page Ikin. A few issues occur:

• Ikin isn't a disambiguation page. It's a surname page. For either of them it needs to have something more than a plain list of people with (or, in one case without) Wikipedia articles: it needs a recognisable structure (A-Z? date?), it needs the people's dates; it needs a description of each of them. It's not worth the bytes it occupies, as it stands. Please improve it.

• If A E Ikin is best known by his initials, then that's what the article should be called. If not, then if Ikin was a disambiguation page it should have the exact article title not a link via a redirect.

• Links to lists of his publications elsewhere are not suitable for a WP article. I've removed them to the talk page. You could usefully add some selected publications from these sources, but it's poor editing to just dump links to external lists into the article.

• Hadow report was a red link. I've changed it to Hadow Report, and linked that (singular and plural) as redirects to William Henry Hadow where the reports get a mention. PamD 12:25, 20 June 2014 (UTC)