User talk:Diecast John

Speedy deletion nomination of August von washington


A tag has been placed on August von washington, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article that does not provide sufficient context to identify its subject. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Half Shadow  19:50, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. I don't agree with the speedy deletion nomination above, I think the article subject was clear, but I have deleted it as a copyright violation: the article itself says it was taken from "Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Encyclopedia, copyrighted 1931". Copyright is a serious issue for Wikipedia: every edit screen says "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted." You are welcome to write an article using sources like the encyclopedia, but they must be in your own words. See WP:Copyrights and WP:COPYPASTE for more detail; the latter is mainly about copying from other websites, but the same principles apply. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to introduce inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. If you need guidance on how to create appropriate pages, try using the Article Wizard.

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Half Shadow  20:17, 13 March 2010 (UTC)