User talk:Alphag

November 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bexample\.com'.

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Civil engineering surveying
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Civil engineering surveying, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.ices.org.uk/geo.php. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 14:22, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Civil engineering surveying
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Civil engineering surveying, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Civil engineering surveying appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Civil engineering surveying has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Civil engineering surveying and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Civil engineering surveying with a link to where we can find that note.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:51, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Response to your message at User talk:Freply Spang
Hello. I think you have misunderstood a couple of things about Wikipedia, and I am sorry that this miscommunication has occurred. To address some of the points you made on my talk page: Regards, FreplySpang 03:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Most important: you cannot copy material from another website. Wikipedia cannot legally accept copied material. (Note: if you are the owner of the website you can release it for free use - the details are in the message above entitled "Copyright problems with Civil engineering surveying.")
 * The previous messages on this page do not mean that you took the phrase "Civil Engineering Surveying" from http://www.ices.org.uk/geo.php, but that the entire article that you wrote about Civil Engineering Surveying was taken directly from that website.
 * Similarly, the material I deleted from the article about ICES was nearly word-for-word from their website.
 * If you would like to get another experienced user's opinion on this, please leave a message at the Help desk or simply type (with the curly brackets but without the "nowiki" tags) in a message on this page.

Writing in your own words
Yes, it would be perfectly acceptable and welcome if you wanted to write a page about ICES in your own words. Of course you will use some of the same phrases like "civil engineering surveying," but otherwise try to write a different article than ICES has already provided. For instance, your article will be shorter than theirs. Wikipedia doesn't need as much detail as ICES' own website does, especially since you can put a link to their website at the bottom of the Wikipedia article. And remember to stay focused on ICES itself. You don't need to explain things as much as they do on their website. Instead of telling people what civil engineering is, just link to the Wikipedia article about it. The first time you say "civil engineering" in your article, put square brackets around it (like civil engineering ) and it will become a link like this: civil engineering. Hope this helps! FreplySpang 01:39, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Civil engineering surveyor
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Civil engineering surveyor, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * It may exist, but I can find no assertation of notability. WP:IINFO.

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  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. CultureDrone (talk) 09:05, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Chartered institution of civil engineering surveyors
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Chartered institution of civil engineering surveyors, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page&mdash; you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 13:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Chartered institution of civil engineering surveyors
Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Chartered institution of civil engineering surveyors. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. andy (talk) 13:02, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

March 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.
 * Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
 * Cluebot produces very few false positives, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been detected as unconstructive, please report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors was changed by Alphag (u) (t) redirecting article to non-existant page on 2010-03-25T13:06:44+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 13:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Redirects
I see you got in a tangle over redirects. I've fixed them - the original ICES page is now moved to Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and your recent page also redirects there. Job done. andy (talk) 13:10, 25 March 2010 (UTC)