User talk:Bobnewman

User:WillMak050389|WillMak050389]] 00:24, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Village article
I've seen the article you've just created about the village where you worked as a Peace Corps volunteer. The layout of the text makes me think that it was cut and pasted from somewhere. That fact raises questions over its copyright status. Did you write that material yourself or did you copy it from another source? If the former is true then there are absolutely no problems. If the latter is true then I'm afraid we cannot accept the text at Wikipedia. It is important that we make sure that material written for the encyclopedia is not copied from another source which is copyrighted without permission. If we don't do that then we risk getting sued. David Newton 23:37, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear David Newton, The article (unfinished) that I posted on village Guraura in India was definitely not cut and pasted from anywhere. I wrote it myself. Nobody else could write it, unless they were from that village. No other Westerners have ever worked in that village. I went back there to do anthropology field work after my Peace Corps work. So, please do not suggest that I copied this or cut and pasted it from anywhere else. I am new to Wikipedia and not very good at computers. This is my first effort to write anything. I don't know how to operate very well. How does my article get 'translated' into a standard format Wikipedia article ? I have no clue. Do you think you could help me ? Thanks, Bob Newman

Good luck with Guraura! ~Kylu ( u | t )  23:29, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Robert S. Newman
This article would benefit most from the addition of reliable secondary sources to verify the information in the article, much of which really should not stand in its current state--it's a biography of a living person (I assume the subject is not dead yet). Please have a look at WP:RS, WP:BLP, and WP:CITE, and consider improving the article to conform to our guidelines. Now, there seems to be somewhat of an agreement between your user name and the name of the subject of the article; please make sure that your edits are neutral, otherwise a conflict of interest may be suspected. Such COIs are not in themselves evil, but they do require extra caution. Thank you, and happy editing, Drmies (talk) 21:29, 3 December 2010 (UTC)