User talk:Frankichiro

Welcome!

Hello, Frankichiro, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Ecopunk, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. 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 helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Kevin (talk) 22:23, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Ecopunk


A tag has been placed on Ecopunk requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kevin (talk) 22:23, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyright etc
Hello, Frankichiro. I have just seen the message you posted to User talk:MrKIA11 and User talk:Kgorman-ucb, and the following may be of help to you.
 * 1) Have you actually read the notice above, which gives links to instructions how to give copyright permission?
 * 2) Anyone can create a Wikipedia account and claim to be anyone, so we can't take some unknown user's word for it when they claim to be a copyright owner. That is why we haveprocedures for dealing with the issue.
 * 3) In my experience it is almost never worth the time and effort of following those procedures, as the article is practically always deleted again for other reasons. Material copied from another web site usually has other reasons why it is not suitable for a Wikipedia article, the commonest being that it is written in promotional terms, but other reasons may also apply, such as lack of indication of notability of the subject.
 * 4) The article you wrote gave no independent sources at all, and it is doubtful whether the subject was notable. If not then the article would have been deleted before long anyway.
 * 5) The welcome notice above gives a few useful links to tell you how to get started. If you follow them you are less likely to find your work gets deleted.
 * 6) In my experience editors who start out their career as Wikipedians by creating articles frequently have a frustrating time, with their work being repeatedly deleted or savagely changed, and after a while leave, very much disillusioned. It is far better to start by making very minor edits to existing articles where you can see a problem. Over the course of time you can work your way up to bigger things, and by the time you eventually start writing articles you have learnt how things work.

I hope these comments are of some value to you. Please feel free to contact me via my talk page if you have further questions about any of what I have said. I do know that Wikipedia can be confusing and intimidating for a new editor (it was for me when I started), and it can often seem as though everyone is out to obstruct you, but it's not really like that, and with a little help you should soon find things become easier. JamesBWatson (talk) 01:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC)