User talk:Adnirb

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The Misfortunes of Virtue
Hi. You recently dumped a large quantity of text into the middle of the article The Misfortunes of Virtue. It reads like a good essay, but it also reads like a standalone essay, not part of an article. Assuming this is your writing, I can see you could be a really good contributor. I hope you understand, though, it is very unusual to have something like that appear in the middle of an article, a bit oddly formatted for Wikipedia, without so much as an edit summary, and no clear citations as to just what comes from where, from a user who hasn't chosen even to say on their user page who they are, and who apparently has made only one other edit, and that a similar one. Because of this, I have (at least temporarily) moved it to the article's talk page.

If you want to maintain anonymity, that is your prerogative, but I'd appreciate if you'd at least come to the article's talk page and say overtly that this was your own writing, not something that you copied from a book, journal, etc. Please don't take this personally: it's just that a lot of times (probably the majority of times) something like this happens, it turns out that someone copied the material from somewhere else, not understanding that Wikipedia can't accept unlicensed third party material. I want that assurance from you before I try cleaning up the text to our style, making it conform with WP:NPOV and better integrating it into the article. - Jmabel | Talk 06:05, 17 September 2006 (UTC)