User talk:BobbyC

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 17:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I have scrubbed your sandbox, BobbyC. You used a Wikipedia article to start your draft, which is fine, but Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution be given in the history. More importantly, I think it is problematic to use the biography of a (controversial) living person to start an article; those edits would have remained in the history, mixing the biography of a living person with that of a dead person. Please see WP:BLP, which will tell you that on Wikipedia we need to be extra careful with such biographies. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 17:04, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Please do NOT mix any more (identifiable) content from that article into your sandbox. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:05, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * OK--I have moved the article back to your sandbox: it is not ready for prime time, and would likely have been deleted because a. the person's importance is not clear and b. there seem to be no reliable sources that discuss the topic in depth. I have also deleted User:Alvin Dewey, which was yet another copy, but now placed on the user page of a non-existent user. I suggest you have a look at WP:FIRST which has some tips on writing and moving one's first article. It needs more sources, and those sources need to be reliable ("findagrave" is not). Thank you, Drmies (talk) 17:37, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Please do NOT create User:Alvin Dewey again. There is no User:Alvin Dewey. Drmies (talk) 18:48, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Flag icons in infoboxes
Per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG, please do not add flag icons to infoboxes. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:24, 29 May 2017 (UTC)