User talk:Douglas L Gillanders

December 2023
Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, very welcome to start making contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, if you are interested in doing so, but if you are interested in writing a personal web page, then there are many web sites which provide that sort of service, but Wikipedia is not one of them. JBW (talk) 20:34, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Just wished to share a poem about grief.
 * Please delete the submission and my account. Douglas L Gillanders (talk) 20:41, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Doug G (December 21)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by KylieTastic were:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


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KylieTastic (talk) 21:33, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. JBW (talk) 21:42, 21 December 2023 (UTC)