User talk:AvW1957

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello AvW1957! Your additions to Midwood Books have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. ''PLEASE NOTE: I noticed that the source BookScan lists scans as public domain, however, this is appears to be a letter to the editor. Since it is not a scan of content, the letter's contents would, by default, still be the intellectual property of Jim Mix and/or Bruce Black and not in the public domain. Erring on the side of caution, it was removed. Feel free to refer to the copyvio report. Thanks!'' Thank you. Bgv. (talk) 00:22, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Beacon Books moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Beacon Books, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. ... disco spinster   talk  23:48, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


 * The list of titles is an actual list that I have personally assembled from the viewing of the covers so I do not see the citation requirement. I do not have any further information on the publishing histories etc. AvW1957 (talk) 23:56, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how this would be a suitable article in that case. Do these books have individual Wikipedia articles? If not then what is the article for? ... disco spinster   talk  00:43, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * It would be a list of the Beacon books published as this list does not exist anywhere else. An article on the publisher can be added.  I only added this list to a page (albeit with no other information on it) already created for the Beacon books. AvW1957 (talk) 01:34, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Please see Wikipedia is not a directory and Stand alone lists. An article is not just a list of things, unless it's directing readers to other articles linked within it. ... disco spinster   talk  01:54, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

July 2022
Hello, I'm Patient Zero. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Midwood Books—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Patient Zerotalk 18:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Beacon Books
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:41, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Draft:Beacon Books


The page Draft:Beacon Books has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Liz Read! Talk! 04:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, AvW1957,
 * This is not an encyclopedia article, it is just a list of all of the books this company has published. This could never be accepted as an article into the project.
 * If you have questions, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:07, 4 November 2022 (UTC)