User talk:Bob Kinney

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Adding Information
I have added some information on the fort site, Fort Williams. I had hunted the field quite a few years ago where the fort was approximately located and have in fact, have a small amount of relics from this fort.Bob Kinney (talk) 20:53, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid accounts of your own personal discoveries are not appropriate for an encyclopedia - Wikipedia is only written based on reliable sources (see WP:RS). Also, contributors to articles should not write in the first person about themselves. Neatsfoot (talk) 21:04, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Welcome Message
Hi Bob, I should have given you a welcome message yesterday, which has a lot of useful links for a starter. Better late than never, so here it is:

Question about adding
I would like to add this page: http://www.pa-roots.com/bedford/history/fortpiper.html to this page list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Colonial_forts_in_Pennsylvania

Thanks Bob Kinney (talk) 15:40, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That category page is not one you can actually edit. It automatically shows all the existing Wikipedia articles which have  on them. What you could do is, write an article about Fort Piper, using that link as a source. Look at some of the other articles listed to see what it might be like, and read WP:Your first article for advice. Note that you must not copy sentences directly from the source page, which is copyright: you have to write in your own words, see Copy-paste. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:57, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Further note on copyright
You said you had contacted the source to get permission to use their material. Copyright is a tricky business: Wikipedia is released under the CC-BY-SA license, which allows any reader to copy, modify and re-use the content for any purpose including commercial. The copyright owner needs to understand that: it means that release "for Wikipedia only", or even "for educational purposes only" is not good enough. How to make an appropriate release is explained at Donating copyrighted materials, and the general information about copyright is at Copyrights. You may have to write an article in your own words, linking to the source website as a reference. JohnCD (talk) 16:42, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Fort Piper has been accepted
 Fort Piper, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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