User talk:Brighthalf

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Hello, Brighthalf, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;. Four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- lucasbfr talk 06:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hi. I've had to revert your edits to Robert W. Edgar as the text you added look as if it has been copied wholesale from another website or a book. Please read WP:C before adding any more work that is not your own to Wikipedia. Thanks AA Milne 00:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

If the content is yours, you should consider merging it into the article instead of creatin some sort of addentum at the end. Happy Editing (and nice work if it is yours). Remember that all articles must cite their sources (see our policy WP:V). -- lucasbfr talk 06:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Links that may help out
Hey there, I noticed you're running into problems updating articles - you may also be the person who wrote to WP:OTRS about the difficulties (if not, just ignore that part). A few things that might help:
 * Please give full citations for your sources - see WP:CITE for our guidelines
 * Please encorporate your text into the article instead of dumping it at the end - see WP:MOS for style ideas
 * Edit summaries are helpful to let other editors know what you are working on - see Help:Edit summary for more information

For such large and complete updates, you may want to leave a note on the talk page of the article explaining that you've done considerable research and worked on the article offline. This may help avoid people reverting your text in the future. No one is trying to be rude, but almost all of the time when an unknown account comes along and adds a large amount of excellent prose to an article, they are plagarizing. Using those tools I outlined above will greatly reduce the possibility of other editors making that assumption about your work.

Thanks for your contributions. I hope you continue to enjoy Wikipedia. Shell babelfish 04:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence G. Williams
Hello, subsequent to my e-mail, I decided to move your work on your user page so you wouldn't lose it. You can find it and work on it at User:Brighthalf/Lawrence G. Williams. I suggest you to read our Manual of Style and what exactly we mean by needing sources: Verifiability. Of course I can help you in this process, don't hesitate to ask me or any other wikipedian. -- lucasbfr talk 23:05, 8 November 2006 (UTC)